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

  • [Roman inked wooden tablet]. Roman inked wooden tablet.Roman Empire, 4th century AD.

    $108,147.00
  • [British Armed Forces]. Infantry training book.England, early 1920s.

    $2,163.00
  • Martin Heidegger, Philosoph (1889-1976). Eigenh. Briefkarte mit zweifacher U.Freiburg i. Br., 25 Feb 1973.

    $1,298.00
  • [Qur'an]. A large, early Ottoman or Pre-Ottoman (probably Qaramanid) Qur'an.Turkey, ca. 1500 / 15th-16th century CE.

    $91,925.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Zanzibar]. The Gazette for Zanzibar.Zanzibar, 1912-13, 1918 and 1920.

    $27,037.00
  • Wagner, Richard, Komponist (1813-1883). Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. Widmung als vollständiges Notenmanuskript …Wien, 1861.

    $32,444.00
  • 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.

    $102,740.00
  • Sulayman al-Tajir / Abu Zaid Hasan ibn Yazid, al-Sirafi / Renaudot, Eusèbe (ed.). [Silsilat al-tawarik - Italian]. Antiche relazioni dell' Indie, e della …Bologna, 1749.

    $10,274.00