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

  • Marx, Karl, philosopher and economist (1818-1883). "An die Redaction des 'Volksstaat'". Autograph manuscript signed.London, 23 Mar 1871.

     480,000.00
  • [Biblia syriaca - NT]. The Gospels in Syriac.Lebanon, ca. 1790s CE.

     35,000.00
  • Hesse, Hermann, writer and Nobel laureate (1877-1962). "Piktor's Verwandlungen. Ein Märchen von H. H.". Typescript, signed with …Presumably Montagnola, ca. 1940/45.

     28,000.00
  • Valle, Pietro della. Viaggi di Pietro della Valle il pellegrino. Descritta da lui medesimo in …Rome, 1650-1663.

     28,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

     400,000.00
  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

     12,500.00
  • Petrini, Paolo. [Wall Maps of the World and Four Continents].Naples, ca. 1700.

     480,000.00
  • 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.

     95,000.00