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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

  • Ratzinger, Joseph (Benedikt XVI.), Theologe und Papst (1927-2022). Gedr. Billett mit mehreren eigenh. Zeilen und U.Vatikan, 2002.

    $1,283.00

  • [King Cyrus and the Temple of Jerusalem]. Biblia latina - VT - Esdras. [Illuminated manuscript leaf].Austria or Germany, 1507.

    $19,249.00

  • [Chinese rites controversy, Vicariate of Western Tonkin.] - Kinh, Paul, Vietnamese missionary (fl. 1744). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by Jean-Louis Roux M.E.P.Tonkin, 26 Jul 1744.

    $5,347.00

  • Kunike, Adolph. Zwey hundert vier und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes …Vienna, 1826.

    $80,205.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Gilbert, Sir John, English painter (1817-1897) - attributed. Portrait of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), unsigned but initialled …London, likely 1837 or soon after.

    $2,673.00

  • Strabo. [Strabonos geographikon bibloi hepta kai deka]. Strabonis rerum geographicarum …Basel, August 1571.

    $37,429.00

  • [Hinduism]. Illuminated Hinduistic manuscript.India, early 19th century.

    $10,159.00

  • Chimani, Leopold. Bunte Scenerien aus dem Menschenleben. Ein Bilderbuch ganz neuer Art.Wien, 1836.

    $13,367.00