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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

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

    $103,356.00

  • Marx, Karl / Engels, Friedrich. Forderungen der kommunistischen Parthei in Deutschland.Paris, end of March 1848.

    $195,833.00

  • Herz, Henriette, Schriftstellerin (1764-1847). 3 eigenh. Briefe.Wohl Berlin, 1838.

    $4,896.00

  • [Lawrence, T. E.] - Arab Bureau - (Hogarth, David George). Secret. Handbook of Hejaz.Cairo, 1917.

    $48,958.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Chimani, Leopold. Bunte Scenerien aus dem Menschenleben. Ein Bilderbuch ganz neuer Art.Wien, 1836.

    $13,600.00

  • Montaigne, Michel de. Essais de Messire Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, Chevalier de l'Ordre du …Bordeaux, 1580.

    $489,583.00

  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of nineteen masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

    $217,592.00

  • [Biblia arabica - NT]. Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis …Rome, 1590-1591.

    $30,463.00