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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

  • Kipling, Rudyard, English novelist and short story writer (1865-1936). Eight autograph and typed letters, signed.Various, 3 October 1918 - 23 June 1935.

    $16,282.00

  • [Qur'an]. Rub' of the Qur'an.Eastern Morocco, 19th century CE.

    $3,799.00

  • Thoma, Ludwig, Schriftsteller (1867-1921). Eigenh. Brief mit U.München, 14 Feb 1903.

    $1,628.00

  • [Qur'an - Ming Dynasty]. Illuminated Chinese Qur'an.China, 1494/95 CE = 900 H.

    $271,362.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Vasif, Ahmet. Mahasin al-athar wa-haqaiq al-akhbar.Bulaq, 1246 1830.

    $4,885.00

  • [Qur'an Juz' - China]. An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XX, written in Beijing by a Muslim woman.Khanbaliq Cambaluc, Beijing, 10 Nov. 1623 CE = 17 Muharram 1033 H.

    $135,681.00

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, poet (1749-1832). "Die Feier des siebenten Novembers 1825 | Dankbar zu erwiedern [!]". Broadsheet …No place, 1832.

    $4,885.00

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

    $30,393.00