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 pour la lune et les 5 planètes". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1735.

    $29,973.00
  • Said, Nuri al-. Muhadarat 'an 'l-harakat al-'askariya li-l-jaish al-'arabi fi 'l-Hijaz …Baghdad, 1947.

    $3,747.00
  • Powell, Earl "Bud", American jazz pianist and composer (1924-1966). Signed contract.New York, 26 Jul 1949.

    $4,817.00
  • [Arabian Sea]. Arabian Sea. Chart No. 143. East Sheet.London, 1896.

    $4,817.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Luther, Martin, Theologe und Reformator (1483-1546). Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("Martinus").Veste Coburg, "feria quinta post Equinoctium autumni" = 15. IX. 1530.

    $374,668.00
  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

    $13,381.00
  • Aldini, Giovanni. Essai théoretique et expérimental sur le galvanisme, avec une série …Paris, 1804.

    $10,170.00
  • Megiser, Hieronymus. Institutionum linguae Turcicae, libri quatuor [...].Leipzig and Breslau, 1612.

    $62,088.00