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 Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

    $135,838.00
  • Hill, Richard Leslie. A Bibliography of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan From the Earliest Times to 1937.London, 1939.

    $380.00
  • Stanley, Henry Morton, African explorer (1841-1904). Album leaf signed.Paris, 28 Aug 1891.

    $869.00
  • [Qur'an]. Manuscript Qur'an.Kashmir, 19th century CE.

    $10,324.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.

    $1,086,706.00
  • [Saud ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud]. The picture story of a memorable visit to the United States by His Majesty …No place or publisher, 1957.

    $4,890.00
  • Bombay Geographical Society. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1868 …Bombay, 1874.

    $152,139.00
  • Schönberg, Arnold, Austrian composer (1874-1951). Autograph letter signed and autogr. quotation signed.Los Angeles, 15 May 1949.

    $3,043.00