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

  • Pedrini, Teodorico, Italian missionary, musician, and composer at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1671-1746). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the bishop of Beijing, Polycarpo …Beijing, 1642-1646.

     3,000.00
  • Musa, Qadi Iyad bin. Kitab al-Shifa bi-tarif huquq al-Mustafa [The book of healing by defining …Ottoman Turkey, 8 Nov. 1744 CE = 2 Shawwal 1157 H.

     4,500.00
  • Hemingway, Ernest, American writer and Nobel Laureate (1899-1961). Autograph letter signed.Paris, 6 November 1933.

     15,000.00
  • Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago.Milan but: The Hague, 1958.

     18,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [United Arab Emirates]. Photograph of Sheikh Zayed raising the flag of independence at al-Diyafah …Dubai, 2 Dec 1971.

     35,000.00
  • [Astronomy]. Astronomical manuscript in Arabic.No place, late 18th century ca. 1785 CE / 1200 H.

     12,500.00
  • Chimani, Leopold. Bunte Scenerien aus dem Menschenleben. Ein Bilderbuch ganz neuer Art.Wien, 1836.

     12,500.00
  • Bombay Geographical Society. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1868 …Bombay, 1874.

     140,000.00