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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

  • Ratzinger, Joseph (Benedikt XVI.), Theologe und Papst (1927-2022). Gedr. Billett mit mehreren eigenh. Zeilen und U.O. O. u. D.

    € 650.00

  • [Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (1932-2016)]. 5 original photographs.Qatar, ca. 1980s.

    € 450.00

  • Ratzinger, Joseph (Benedikt XVI.), Theologe und Papst (1927-2022). Eigenh. Bildpostkarte mit U.Brixen, 9 Aug 2001.

    € 800.00

  • [Ibn Khalsun, Muhammad ibn Yusuf]. [Kitab al-aghdiya fi hifz al-sihha - On Nutrition and the Preservation …Paris, 1615.

    € 45,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Montaigne, Michel de. Essais de Messire Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, Chevalier de l'Ordre du …Bordeaux, 1580.

    € 450,000.00

  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Austrian philosopher (1889-1951). Autograph picture postcard signed.Cambridge, 28. II. 1929.

    € 2,500.00

  • [Logbook of HMS Effingham in the Gulf]. Larken, Francis Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy officer (1911-1985). Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional material to 1951.

    € 145,000.00

  • (Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp). Vollständig vermehrtes Trincir-Buch, Handlend: I. Von den Tafeldecken, …Nuremberg, 1654.

    € 4,500.00