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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

  • [Mesopotamian clay tablet]. Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet.Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium BCE.

    € 8,500.00

  • [Qur'an]. Manuscript Qur'an.Kashmir, 19th century CE.

    € 9,500.00

  • [Wiener Künstler des frühen 20. Jhdts.]. Albumblatt mit 20 eigenh. U. von namhaften Musikern, Malern und Schriftstellern.Österreich, um 1920.

    € 1,500.00

  • [Biblia syriaca - NT]. The Gospels in Syriac.Lebanon, ca. 1790s CE.

    € 35,000.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Maurer- und Steinmetzbuch des Bezirks Neusiedl am See]. Register Eines Ehrsammen Handt-Werchs der Steinmetzen und Maurer, im Königlichen …Neusiedl, 1679-1831.

    € 4,500.00

  • Klimt, Gustav, painter (1862-1918). Portrait photograph inscribed and signed.Probably Vienna, no date.

    € 120,000.00

  • [Slave Trade]. Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of …London, 1892.

    € 35,000.00

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

    € 4,500.00