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

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

    $135,606.00
  • [French Algeria and Tunisia]. Photo album - Algiers and Tunis.Algeria and Tunisia, ca. 1890.

    $10,306.00
  • Goebbels, Joseph, German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany (1897-1945). "O du mein Deutschland". Autograph poem manuscript.No place, ca. 1916/19.

    $2,712.00
  • Ibn Hassan, Omar. Prayers and excerpts from the Qur’an copied by ‘Omar ibn Hassan.Sudan, 19th century CE.

    $19,527.00

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.

    $62,921.00
  • Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China (1866-1925). Autograph letter signed ("Y-S Sun").Canton Guangzhou, 29 Nov 1921.

    $162,728.00
  • [Polanco, Juan Alfonso, SJ]. Izpravnik za erei ispovidnici, i za pokornik.Rome, 1635.

    $13,561.00
  • La Fontaine, Jean de, French writer (1621-1695). Autograph document signed "De la fontaine".No place, 5 Jan 1660.

    $16,273.00