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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

  • Freud, Lucian, British painter and draughtsman (1922-2011). Autograph letter signed.4 Delamere Terrace, London, ca. 1960.

    € 3,500.00

  • Dani, 'Uthman ibn Sa'id (Abu 'Amr) al-. Al-Taysir fi al-qira'at al-sab'.Mamluk Syria, 14th century CE.

    € 65,000.00

  • Jung, C[arl] G[ustav], Psychologe und Psychiater (1875-1961). Ms. Brief mit eigenh. U.Küsnacht-Zürich, 10 May 1948.

    € 2,500.00

  • [Aden album]. Naylor, D. A. R. Aden Trip 1958.Aden, 1958.

    € 1,250.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Astronomy]. Astronomical manuscript in Arabic.No place, late 18th century ca. 1785 CE / 1200 H.

    € 12,500.00

  • [Palestine]. Album fotografico delle principali vedute della Palestina con apposite …Turin, 1870s, at least before 1878.

    € 8,500.00

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Eigenh. Gedichtmanuskript mit U.O. O., Februar 1825.

    € 58,000.00

  • [Slave Trade]. Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of …London, 1892.

    € 35,000.00