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 letter signed.Beijing, 23 Nov 1725.

    $26,786.00
  • [Jesuit prayer book]. Magnis, Giovanni Pietro, Italo-Austrian physician (1558-1618). Septem psalmi poenitentiales & aliae devotae orationes.Probably Vienna, 1601.

    $37,500.00
  • Sauvé, N. B., American geophysicist and oil explorer (fl. 1950s). Typed letter signed ("N. B. Sauvé").Pasay City, Manila, Philippines, 25 Jun 1959.

    $321.00
  • Mansur ibn Ilyas. Tashrih-i Mansuri [Mansur's Anatomy].Persia, 19th century.

    $48,215.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Watt, James, Scottish inventor (1736-1819). Autograph letter signed ("James Watt").Birmingham, 29 Dec 1818.

    $2,679.00
  • [Cabala]. Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: in Letters …London, 1663.

    $4,821.00
  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

    $428,576.00
  • Megiser, Hieronymus. Institutionum linguae Turcicae, libri quatuor [...].Leipzig and Breslau, 1612.

    $62,144.00