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

  • Nietzsche, Friedrich, German philosopher and poet (1844-1900). Autograph letter signed ("Friedrich Nietzsche").Basel, 27 Sep 1876.

    $91,099.00
  • [Salt, Henry]. Egypt. A Descriptive Poem with Notes by a Traveller.Alexandria, 1824.

    $9,110.00
  • [Roman inked wooden tablet]. Roman inked wooden tablet.Roman Empire, 4th century CE.

    $101,816.00
  • Qaysari, 'Abd al-Muhsin al-. Sharh al-'Arud al-Andalusi.Medina, Nejd, Ottoman Empire, Sept. 1734 CE = Rabi' al-Thani 1147 H.

    $10,182.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Biblia arabica - NT]. Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis …Rome, 1590-1591.

    $30,009.00
  • Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

    $101,816.00
  • [Ships Logs] - F. R. Openshaw, Royal Navy midshipman (fl. 1900s). "Log of H. M. Ships Highflyer & Hyacinth". Autograph manuscript logs …Indian Ocean and the Gulf, 1902-1904.

    $101,816.00
  • (Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp). Vollständig vermehrtes Trincir-Buch, Handlend: I. Von den Tafeldecken, …Nuremberg, 1654.

    $4,823.00