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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

  • [I Ching]. Wilhelm, Richard / Baynes, Cary F. (transl.) / Jung, Carl Gustav (foreword). The I Ching or Book of Changes.London, 1965.

    $30,429.00

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

    $16,301.00

  • Albert, Eugen d', Komponist und Pianist (1864-1932). Eigenh. Portraitpostkarte mit Notenzitat und U.O. O., 17 Jul 1909.

    $239.00

  • Leupold, Jacob. Theatrum machinarum.Leipzig, 1724-1727.

    $27,169.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $63,031.00

  • Ibrâhim Haqqi, Erzurumlu. Marifetname [The Book of Knowledge and Skills].Ottoman Empire, 1235 AH 1819/20 AD.

    $30,429.00

  • [Waxworks] - Salleneuve. Mit hoher Erlaubnis. Der Bildhauer und Modelleur Salleneve, Bürger aus …Bautzen, ca. 1796.

    $272.00

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

    $4,890.00