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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 poet and novelist, Nobel laureate (1865-1936). Autograph letter signed ("Rudyard Kipling").London, 20 Sep 1907.

    $3,751.00

  • [Schematismus]. Hof- und Staats-Schematismus des österreichischen Kaiserthums. I. (-II.) …Wien, 1819.

    $343.00

  • Karl, Erzherzog von Österreich (1771-1847). Offene Ordre.Donaueschingen, 14 Feb 1800.

    $514.00

  • Kuwait Government. [The Kuwait power grid].Kuwait, 1950/1960s.

    $19,292.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Gilbert, Sir John, English painter (1817-1897) - attributed. Portrait of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), unsigned but initialled …London, likely 1837 or soon after.

    $2,679.00

  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,823.00

  • [Hinduism]. Illuminated Hinduistic manuscript.India, early 19th century.

    $10,182.00

  • [DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.

    $10,182.00