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

  • Hermann Hesse, Schriftsteller und Nobelpreisträger (1877-1962). Eigenh. Brief mit U. und eh. Postkarte mit U.Montagnola und Tschechoslowakei, 1932 und 1936.

    $4,821.00
  • (Dawani, Jalal al-Din al- / Iji, 'Adudaddin ibn Ahmad al-). Hawashi Sharh al-'Aqa'id al-Adudiyya. [Notes on the commentary on the creed …Ottoman Empire, after 1656 CE.

    $8,036.00
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827). Autograph sketchleaf for op. 117, "König Stephan" ("Ungarns erster Wohltäter").Teplitz, 1811.

    $375,004.00
  • Mansur ibn Ilyas. Tashrih-i Mansuri [Mansur's Anatomy].Persia, 19th century.

    $48,215.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [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.

    $133,930.00
  • [United Arab Emirates]. Photograph of Sheikh Zayed raising the flag of independence at al-Diyafah …Dubai, 2 Dec 1971.

    $37,500.00
  • [Biblia germanica - NT]. Luther, Martin. Das Newe Testament Mar. Luthers.Wittenberg, 1530.

    $80,358.00
  • Vesalius, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.Basel, June 1543.

    $375,004.00