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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

  • Ratzinger, Joseph (Benedikt XVI.), Theologe und Papst (1927-2022). Gedr. Billett mit 4 eigenh. Zeilen und U.O. O., wohl Dezember 2001.

    $643.00

  • [Saudi Arabia - Riyadh infrastructure]. [Development of the city of Riyadh in pictures].Saudi Arabia, ca. 1960.

    $8,036.00

  • Herzog, Maurice, French mountaineer (1919-2012). Typed letter signed.Paris, 19 Jun 1959.

    $375.00

  • [Sri Lanka - palm leaf book]. [Sinhalese palm-leaf manuscript].Sri Lanka, 19th century.

    $1,607.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.

    $80,358.00

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

    $62,144.00

  • [British Army]. Exercise Gulf.Headquarters Army Emergency Reserve, Longmoor, Hants., 1959.

    $2,143.00

  • Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

    $101,787.00