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

  • Celan, Paul, Romanian born German-language poet (1920-1970). "Chanson einer Dame im Schatten". Autograph poem signed ("Paul Celan").Paris, August 1949.

     15,000.00
  • [Ibn Sina (Avicenna)]. Welsch (Velschius), Georg Hieronymus. Exercitatio de vena Medinensi, ad mentem Ebnsinae, sive de dracunculis …Augsburg, 1674.

     9,500.00
  • Pabst, Georg Wilhelm, Regisseur (1885-1967). Gedr. Briefkarte mit eigenh. U.Fünfturm Steiermark, nach 1945.

     420.00
  • [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

  • [Qur'an Juz' - China]. An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XX, written in Beijing by a Muslim woman.Khanbaliq Cambaluc, Beijing, 10 Nov. 1623 CE = 17 Muharram 1033 H.

     125,000.00
  • Tahtawi, Rifa`ah Rafi` / Besim, Rüstem (transl.). Seyahatname-i Ibn Rifaa [Tercüme-yi Seyahatnâme-yi Pâris - The travelogue …Bulaq, 1255 1839.

     12,500.00
  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

     4,500.00
  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.

     1,000,000.00