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

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

    $135,907.00
  • Watson, James D., American Nobel laureate, molecular biologist, and geneticist (b. 1928). Genes, Girls and Gamow.Oxford, 2001.

    $870.00
  • Laube, Heinrich, Schriftsteller und Theaterdirektor (1806-1884). Eigenh. Brief mit U. und eh. Albumblatt mit U.Leipzig, 21. XI. 1843 und 15. II. 1875.

    $283.00
  • Camões, Luis de. The Lusiad, or, Portugals historicall Poem.London, 1655.

    $27,181.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Vesalius, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.Basel, June 1543.

    $380,539.00
  • Klimt, Gustav, painter (1862-1918). Portrait photograph inscribed and signed.Probably Vienna, no date.

    $130,471.00
  • [Palestine]. Album fotografico delle principali vedute della Palestina con apposite …Turin, 1870s, at least before 1878.

    $9,242.00
  • Reichs-Marine-Amt. Segelhandbuch für den Persischen Golf.Berlin, 1907.

    $8,154.00