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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

  • [I Ching]. Wilhelm, Richard / Baynes, Cary F. (transl.) / Jung, Carl Gustav (foreword). The I Ching or Book of Changes.London, 1965.

    $30,429.00

  • Fiammelli, Giovanni Francesco. Il principe difeso [...]. Nel quale si tratta di fortificazione, oppugnazione, …Rome, 1604.

    $2,717.00

  • Booth, William, Gründer und erster General der Heilsarmee (1829-1912). Portraitpostkarte mit eigenh. U. verso.Bielefeld, März 1910.

    $489.00

  • Roberts, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia [...]. (And:) Egypt & Nubia, from …London, 1842-1849.

    $103,241.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph album signed by Mao Zedong and Chou Enlai.Beijing, 8 Jan 1963.

    $271,687.00

  • [U.S. Air Force / NASA]. Lunar Astronautical Charts.St. Louis, Missouri, 1962-1967.

    $16,301.00

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

    $4,890.00

  • Ali Riza Effendi, First Lieutenant in the Ottoman Army. Medine-i Münevvere Civarlarina Memuriyet Hatirasi [Memoirs of public service …Ottoman Empire, Syria and Hejaz, Sept./Oct. 1916 CE = Eylül 1332 Rumi Calendar.

    $16,301.00