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.

    $135,610.00
  • [Waqidi, Abu Abd Allah al-]. Futuh Ifriqiya [The Conquest of Ifriqiya].Sub-Saharan Africa or Sudan, 16 January 1898 CE = 22 Sha'ban 1315 H.

    $2,712.00
  • Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste, sculptor (1834-1904). Print with autograph signature.Paris, 1878.

    $1,953.00
  • Horn, Wilhelm. Maehrens ausgezeichnete Volkstrachten.Brünn Brno, 1837.

    $6,509.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $151,883.00
  • Reichs-Marine-Amt. Segelhandbuch für den Persischen Golf.Berlin, 1907.

    $8,137.00
  • Klimt, Gustav, Maler (1862-1918). Weiblicher Akt mit ausgestrecktem linkem Arm (Allegorie der Oper).Wien, 1883.

    $92,215.00
  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

    $433,951.00