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.

    $152,145.00
  • [Biblia arabica]. Biblia Sacra arabica, Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide iussu edita. …Rome, 1671.

    $81,506.00
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827). "Neue Liebe, Neues Leben". Autograph musical manuscript.Vienna, 1798-1799.

    $380,362.00
  • Khusraw Dihlavi, Amir. Diwan-i Amir Khusraw Dihlavi.Indo-Persia, Timurid Empire, ca. 1460-1480 CE.

    $163,012.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

    $13,584.00
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Autographa.Weimar, Dezember 1811.

    $16,301.00
  • Wodehouse, P[elham] G[renville], English writer (1881-1975). Autograph letter signed.Le Touquet, 12 Feb 1936.

    $1,630.00
  • Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

    $103,241.00