Established in 1883 and considered the trade’s leading business in Austria ever since, we have been dealing in rare books, manuscripts and autographs for more than a century, serving private collectors and institutional customers all over the world.

What’s new: recent acquisitions

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

     125,000.00
  • Ibn Batuta / Samuel Lee (ed.). The Travels of Ibn Batuta. Translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript …London, 1829.

     15,000.00
  • [Roman inked wooden tablet]. Roman inked wooden tablet.Roman Empire, 4th century CE.

     95,000.00
  • Photosur Inc. Aerial surveying photographs of Umm Al Quwain and surroundings.United Arab Emirates / printed in Montreal, ca. 1976.

     8,500.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Zweig, Stefan, Schriftsteller (1881-1942). "Der Fakir". Eigenh. Gedichtmanuskript mit U.O. O. u. D.

     6,500.00
  • Ptolemaeus, Claudius [translated by Angelus, Jacobus, edited by Germanus, Nicolaus]. [Russia, Black Sea] Octava Europe tabula.Ulm, 16 Jul 1482.

     50,000.00
  • Firdawsi, Abu’l-Qasim. Shah Nameh [The Book of Kings].Northern India, 23 Jan. 1687 CE = 9 Rabi I 1098 H.

     45,000.00
  • [U.S. Air Force / NASA]. Lunar Astronautical Charts.St. Louis, Missouri, 1962-1967.

     15,000.00