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

  • Ateeqi, Abdul Rahman Salim al-, Kuwaiti politician and statesman (1928-2020). Typed letter signed.Kuwait, 12 May 1974.

    $926.00
  • Shirazi, Qutb al-Din Mahmud al- / (Ibn Sina [Avicenna]). Al-Tuhfat al-Sa‘diya fi-t-tibb [Sa‘d’s gift to medicine].Persia, 17th century CE.

    $27,224.00
  • Freud, Sigmund, Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939). Autograph letter signed ("Freud").Vienna, 28 Jul 1927.

    $23,957.00
  • [United Arab Republic]. The U.A.R. Year Book 1960.Cairo, 1960.

    $653.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $13,612.00
  • [Regulations for pearl fishing in Kuwait]. Qanun al-ghawasin fi'l Kuwayt ("Manual of the [pearl] divers in Kuwait").Kuwait City, 1359 H / AD 1940.

    $9,256.00
  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,900.00
  • Wodehouse, P[elham] G[renville], English writer (1881-1975). Autograph letter signed.Le Touquet, 12 Feb 1936.

    $1,633.00