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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

  • [Pazzini]. Legal documents of the Pazzini family.Castel Corno, Isera, Rovereto, and other places, 1667-1717.

    $2,718.00

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

    $2,718.00

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

    $1,305.00

  • [London Conference]. Photograph from the London Conference.London, 17 Feb 1939.

    $272.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Hauslab, Franz von]. Darstellung der K. K. Oesterreichischen Armee mit allen Chargen [...].Vienna, 1823.

    $10,329.00

  • Yuhanna (Yahya) Abu Zakariya ibn Masawaih (Mesue). De re medica, libri tres. Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete.Paris, 1544.

    $30,443.00

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

    $4,893.00

  • [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.

    $135,907.00