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

  • Celan, Paul, Romanian born German-language poet (1920-1970). "Chanson einer Dame im Schatten". Autograph poem signed ("Paul Celan").Paris, August 1949.

    $16,285.00
  • Lees, G[eorge] M[artin]. Some Structural and Stratigraphical Aspects of the Oilfields of the Middle …London, 1948.

    $380.00
  • Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955). Typed letter signed.Munich, 3 Mar 1927.

    $1,954.00
  • Dani, 'Uthman ibn Sa'id (Abu 'Amr) al-. Al-Taysir fi al-qira'at al-sab'.Mamluk Syria, 14th century CE.

    $70,570.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.

    $10,314.00
  • Megiser, Hieronymus. Institutionum linguae Turcicae, libri quatuor [...].Leipzig and Breslau, 1612.

    $62,971.00
  • Rilke, Rainer Maria, Dichter (1875-1926). Eigenh. Gedicht mit Widmung und U. in: Ders., Neue Gedichte.Leipzig, 1914.

    $10,314.00
  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

    $434,280.00