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

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue pour la lune et les 5 planètes". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1735.

    $30,377.00
  • Cooley, William Desborough. The Negroland of the Arabs Examined and Explained.London, 1841.

    $4,340.00
  • Kafka, Franz, Schriftsteller (1883-1924). Briefkuvert mit eigenh. Adresse und Absender.Liboch, Datum des Poststempels unleserlich Anfang 1919.

    $11,391.00
  • Grigor Narekats'i (Gregory of Narek). [Matean oghbergut'ean - Book of Lamentations]. Narek girk': girk' [aghot'its'] …Istanbul, 1782.

    $13,561.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Tusi, Muhamad ibn Muhamad ibn al-Hasan al-. Kitab Uqlidis fi ilm al-handasa [An exposition on mathematics and geometry …Early Safavid Persia, first half of the 16th century.

    $48,820.00
  • [Biblia germanica - NT]. Luther, Martin. Das Newe Testament Mar. Luthers.Wittenberg, 1530.

    $81,366.00
  • [Mattioli, Pietro Andrea]. Original large-format woodblock of Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine).Prague, ca. 1562.

    $13,561.00
  • Waldemar, Prince of Prussia. Zur Erinnerung an die Reise des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen nach Indien …Berlin, 1853.

    $41,225.00