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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

  • Freud, Lucian, British painter and draughtsman (1922-2011). Autograph letter signed.4 Delamere Terrace, London, ca. 1960.

    $3,804.00

  • [Oman]. Cole, C. S. D. An Account of an Overland Journey from Leskkairee to Meskat and the "Green …Bombay, 1849.

    $13,584.00

  • Lagerlöf, Selma, Schriftstellerin und Nobelpreisträgerin (1858-1940). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Marstrand, 5 Jul 1899.

    $380.00

  • [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

  • Ferdinand I., röm.-dt. Kaiser (1503-1564), hier noch als Erzherzog. Gewaltbrief mit eigenh. U.Wien, 4 Nov 1526.

    $7,064.00

  • [Cabala]. Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: in Letters …London, 1663.

    $4,890.00

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

    $13,584.00

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

    $434,700.00