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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

  • Martin Heidegger, Philosoph (1889-1976). Eigenh. Briefkarte mit zweifacher U.Freiburg i. Br., 25 Feb 1973.

    € 1,200.00

  • Owen, Charles Henry. Sketches in the Crimea, Taken During the Late War.London, 1856.

    € 9,500.00

  • Pechstein, Max, German expressionist painter and printmaker (1881-1955). 2 autograph letters signed ("HMPechstein" and "Max Pechstein").Berlin, 31 March 1948 and 15 March 1952.

    € 8,500.00

  • [Dhofar Rebellion]. Know Your Enemy. [I'rif 'aduwak]. Apne Dushman Ko Pehchano.No place, 1971.

    € 4,500.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    € 4,500.00

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

    € 12,500.00

  • Lafosse, Georges. Les Musulmans dans le monde.Paris, ca. 1952.

    € 3,500.00

  • Breydenbach, Bernhard von. [Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, germanice:] Dis buch ist innhaltend die …Speyer, between 1502 and 1505.

    € 185,000.00