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

  • [Sumerian Foundation Cone]. Cuneiform foundation cone dating to the reign of Ishme-Dagan.Southern Mesopotamia, 1953-1935 BCE.

    $10,324.00
  • Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago.Milan but: The Hague, 1958.

    $19,561.00
  • Veltheim, Karl Friedrich (gen. Fritz) von, Oberjägermeister und Politiker (1824-1896). 2 eigenh. Briefe mit U.Braunschweig, 22. II. und 19. III. 1886.

    $239.00
  • [Photos] - Middle Eastern Diplomacy. A trove of more than 600 photographs.Kuwait City, Manama, Muscat, Beirut, Tunis, Khartoum, London, Seattle, Washington D.C., and other places, 1950s to early 2000s.

    $38,036.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [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 Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional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.

    $157,579.00
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Autographa.Weimar, Dezember 1811.

    $16,301.00
  • [Slave Trade]. Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of …London, 1892.

    $38,036.00
  • Allaeus, Franciscus. Astrologiae Nova Methodus. Francisci Allaei, Arabis Christiani.Rennes, 1654-1655.

    $81,506.00