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

  • Pedrini, Teodorico, Italian missionary, musician, and composer at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1671-1746). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the bishop of Beijing, Polycarpo …Beijing, 1642-1646.

    $3,260.00
  • Ibn Batuta / Samuel Lee (ed.). The Travels of Ibn Batuta. Translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript …London, 1829.

    $16,301.00
  • Sand, George, French writer (1804-1876). "Lupo Liverani". Autograph manuscript.N. p., 1869.

    $19,561.00
  • [Farasnama]. Farasnama [The Coloured Book of Horses]. Hippiatric manuscript.India, ca. 1800 CE.

    $38,036.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Astronomy]. Astronomical manuscript in Arabic.No place, late 18th century ca. 1785 CE / 1200 H.

    $13,584.00
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Autographa.Weimar, Dezember 1811.

    $16,301.00
  • [Goethe & Schiller] - Schiller, Friedrich von, (1759-1805) und Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832), deutsche Dichter. Albumblatt mit eigenh. Einträgen beider Dichter.O. O., zwischen 1796 und 1805, bzw. Weimar, 25 Jun 1823.

    $63,031.00
  • Breydenbach, Bernhard von. [Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, germanice:] Dis buch ist innhaltend die …Speyer, between 1502 and 1505.

    $201,049.00