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

  • Pedrini, Teodorico, Italian missionary, musician, and composer at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1671-1746). Autograph letter signed.Jehol Chengde, 20 Oct 1714.

    $13,393.00
  • Beatson, Alexander. [Original watercolour painting of Tipu Sultan, mounted in:] A View of the …London, 1800.

    $19,286.00
  • Eiffel, Gustave, French civil engineer and architect (1832-1923). Visiting card with autograph address.N. p., ca. 1889.

    $804.00
  • Chao, Ju-Kua / Hirth, Friedrich / Rockhill, W. W. Chau Ju-Kua: His Work on the Chinese and Arab Trade in the Twelfth and …St Petersburg, 1911.

    $1,929.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $26,786.00
  • Waldstein, Johann Karl, Graf, österr.-böhmischer Adeliger (1707-1774). [Philosophia scholastico-ethica, fulgidissimis Habspurgico-Austriacorum …Prag, 1726.

    $300.00
  • [Cabala]. Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: in Letters …London, 1663.

    $4,821.00
  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of ten masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the collection …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

    $133,930.00