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

  • Schopenhauer, Arthur, philosopher (1788-1860). Autograph manuscript.No place or date.

     225,000.00
  • (Osgood, Joseph Barlow Felt). Notes of Travel or Recollections of Majunga, Zanzibar, Muscat, Aden, Mocha, …Salem, 1854.

     500.00
  • Lennon, John, English singer, songwriter and musician (1940-1980). Autograph drawing signed.No place, 1977?.

     12,500.00
  • [Qur'an]. Rub' of the Qur'an.Eastern Morocco, 19th century CE.

     3,500.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

     12,500.00
  • (Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp). Vollständig vermehrtes Trincir-Buch, Handlend: I. Von den Tafeldecken, …Nuremberg, 1654.

     4,500.00
  • [Astronomy]. Astronomical manuscript in Arabic.No place, late 18th century ca. 1785 CE / 1200 H.

     12,500.00
  • Ptolemaeus, Claudius [translated by Angelus, Jacobus, edited by Germanus, Nicolaus]. [Russia, Black Sea] Octava Europe tabula.Ulm, 16 Jul 1482.

     50,000.00