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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

  • Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste, sculptor (1834-1904). Print with autograph signature.Paris, no date.

    $1,956.00

  • Tagore, Sourindro Mohun. Tárávatí: a Tale, translated into English.Calcutta, 1881.

    $4,890.00

  • Kipling, Rudyard, English novelist and short story writer (1865-1936). Eight autograph and typed letters, signed.Various, 3 October 1918 - 23 June 1935.

    $16,301.00

  • [Lawrence, T. E.] - Arab Bureau - (Hogarth, David George). Secret. Handbook of Hejaz.Cairo, 1917.

    $48,904.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Wagner, Richard, Komponist (1813-1883). "Prière d'Elisabeth". Eigenh. musikalisches Albumblatt mit U.Paris, 7 Jun 1861.

    $28,255.00

  • Klimt, Gustav, Maler (1862-1918). Weiblicher Akt mit ausgestrecktem linkem Arm (Allegorie der Oper).Wien, 1883.

    $92,374.00

  • Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein").Nassau Point, Peconic, Long Island, NY, 1 Jul 1939.

    $7,607.00

  • [United Arab Emirates]. Photograph of Sheikh Zayed raising the flag of independence at al-Diyafah …Dubai, 2 Dec 1971.

    $38,036.00