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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

  • Schopenhauer, Arthur, German philosopher (1788-1860). Autograph letter signed.Postmark: Frankfurt, 24 April 1849.

    € 15,000.00

  • Pettenkoffer, August von / Strassgschwandtner, Josef Anton. Die k. k. Österreich‘sche Armée nach der neuesten Adjustirung.Vienna, ca. 1854.

    € 4,000.00

  • Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste, sculptor (1834-1904). Print with autograph signature.Paris, 1878.

    € 1,800.00

  • Tawfik, Fathia M. / Hassan, Bahey-Eldeen M. / Abdou, Ismail K. Seventh Arab Petroleum Congress: Organized by the Secretariat General of …Cairo, 1970.

    € 350.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • (Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp). Vollständig vermehrtes Trincir-Buch, Handlend: I. Von den Tafeldecken, …Nuremberg, 1654.

    € 4,500.00

  • [Logbook of HMS Effingham in the Gulf]. Larken, Francis Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy officer (1911-1985). Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional material to 1951.

    € 145,000.00

  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    € 4,500.00

  • Mahler-Werfel, Alma, Komponistin und Schriftstellerin (1879-1964). Eigenh. Brief mit U.New York, 13 Nov 1947.

    € 2,400.00