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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

  • Reinagle, Oriana Georgina, British painter (1794-1875). Autograph letter signed ("O. G. Reinagle").London, 11 Feb 1830.

    $696.00

  • Campbell, Alexander Duncan. A Dictionary of the Teloogoo Language, Commonly Termed the Gentoo, Peculiar …Madras, 1821.

    $10,179.00

  • Nicholls, Norton, English cleric (1741-1809), close friend of the poet Thomas Gray. 1 autograph letter signed with initials ("N.N.").Château d'Aubonne Canton of Vaud, 6 Aug 1771.

    $1,607.00

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

    $4,821.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Al-Qabisi, Abu Al Saqr 'Abd Al-'Aziz Ibn 'Uthman Ibn 'Ali (Alchabitius). Libellus isagogicus (Al-madkhal), with the commentary of Johannes de Saxonia …Likely Germany Limburg an der Lahn, 1500-1524.

    $176,788.00

  • Blanckenhorn, [Prof. Dr. Max]. Die Hedschaz-Bahn auf Grund eigener Reisestudien.Berlin, 1907.

    $3,750.00

  • [Kunstbüchlein]. Reich, Franz Joseph, Austrian artist (d. 1789). Kunstbiechlein in welchem mancherley bewerte unnd aprobierte Firneiß Polloment …Graz, ca. 1730-1788.

    $30,000.00

  • Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955). Typed letter signed.Zürich, 16 Jun 1949.

    $4,821.00