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

  • Safi al-Din al-Kilani, Arabic physician (d. 1010 H / 1601 CE). Mughni al-Ahibba' wa Manhaj al-Atibba' fi al-Tibb [The Enricher of the …Mecca, 10-18 August 1592 CE = 2-10 Dhu'l-Qa'dah 1000 H.

     140,000.00
  • Watson, James D., American Nobel laureate, molecular biologist, and geneticist (b. 1928). DNA: The Secret of Life.New York, 2003.

     1,000.00
  • [Wiener Künstler des frühen 20. Jhdts.]. Albumblatt mit 20 eigenh. U. von namhaften Musikern, Malern und Schriftstellern.Österreich, um 1920.

     1,500.00
  • Ibn Batuta / Samuel Lee (ed.). The Travels of Ibn Batuta. Translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript …London, 1829.

     15,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Wagner, Richard, Komponist (1813-1883). Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. Widmung als vollständiges Notenmanuskript …Wien, 1861.

     30,000.00
  • Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

     45,000.00
  • [Biblia germanica - NT]. Luther, Martin. Das Newe Testament Mar. Luthers.Wittenberg, 1530.

     75,000.00
  • [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.

     125,000.00