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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

  • Raimund, Ferdinand, Austrian poet and actor (1790-1836). "Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind. Original-Zauberspiel in 2 Akten. …No place, before October 1831.

    $27,455.00

  • Martyr d'Anghiera, Peter. De rebus oceanicis et novo orbe, decades tres [...]. Item eiusdem, De Babylonica …Cologne, 1574.

    $10,433.00

  • Petermann, August, Geograph und Kartograph (1822-1878). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Gotha, 31 Jan 1870.

    $242.00

  • Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Mœurs de province.Paris, 1857.

    $4,942.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

    $13,727.00

  • Page, Théogène François, captain of the frigate La Favorit (1807-1867). Campagne de la Favorite - Journal.In the Gulf and elsewhere at sea, 3 June 1841 - 5 January 1844.

    $384,370.00

  • Watt, James, Scottish inventor (1736-1819). Autograph letter signed ("James Watt").Birmingham, 29 Dec 1818.

    $2,745.00

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Eigenh. Gedichtmanuskript mit U.O. O., Februar 1825.

    $63,696.00