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

  • Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955). Typed letter signed.Munich, 3 Mar 1927.

    $1,957.00
  • Lees, G[eorge] M[artin]. Persia.Oxford, 1953.

    $381.00
  • Amiot, Joseph-Marie, French Jesuit missionary, translator, and musicologist at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1722-1788). Autograph document signed.Macau, 27 Aug 1750.

    $4,349.00
  • [Ethiopian Divinatory Text]. Awda Nagast [The Circle of the King].Ethiopia, late 18th or early 19th century CE.

    $10,329.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Autographa.Weimar, Dezember 1811.

    $16,309.00
  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

    $434,902.00
  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,893.00
  • Mahler-Werfel, Alma, Komponistin und Schriftstellerin (1879-1964). Eigenh. Brief mit U.New York, 13 Nov 1947.

    $2,609.00