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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

  • Ratzinger, Joseph (Benedikt XVI.), Theologe und Papst (1927-2022). Eigenh. Briefkarte mit U.O. O., 24 Jun 1993.

    $1,925.00

  • Arvieux, Laurent d' / Ödman, Samuel (transl). Arabernas seder och lefnadssätt.Uppsala, 1783.

    $1,016.00

  • Kollwitz, Käthe, Grafikerin, Malerin und Bildhauerin (1867-1945). 1 eigenh. Brief mit U. und 4 eh. Postkarten mit U.Berlin, 1925-1929.

    $4,812.00

  • Hoechle, Johann Nepomuk / Kriehuber, Josef. Sechs Momente aus dem Leben eines ungarischen Husaren. Egy Magyar Húszár …Vienna, ca. 1850.

    $10,159.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $427,760.00

  • Culpeper, Nich[olas]. Catastrophe magnatum: Or, the Fall of Monarchie. A Caveat to Magistrates, …London, 1652.

    $2,673.00

  • [Regulations for pearl fishing in Kuwait]. Qanun al-ghawasin fi'l Kuwayt ("Manual of the [pearl] divers in Kuwait").Kuwait City, 1359 H / AD 1940.

    $9,090.00

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

    $4,812.00