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

  • K'ieou, Pierre, Chinese Jesuit (1686 - after 1744). Autograph document signed in Chinese.Zhujiajiao Qingpu District, Shanghai, 29 May 1744.

    $5,352.00
  • [Journals - Western and Central Asia; India]. Olaf Caroe, Aurel Stein, Richard Temple, Francis Younghusband and others. [Large collection of journal articles about the scientific exploration …Various places, including London and Calcutta, 1837-1981.

    $37,467.00
  • Watson, James, Molekularbiologe und Nobelpreisträger (geb. 1928). Albumblatt mit eigenh. U.O. O. u. D.

    $236.00
  • Nunes, Pedro. Salacie[n]sis, de crepusculis liber unus, nu[n]c rece[n]s & natus et …Lisbon, January 1542.

    $80,286.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Austrian philosopher (1889-1951). Autograph picture postcard signed.Cambridge, 28. II. 1929.

    $2,676.00
  • Firdawsi, Abu’l-Qasim. Shah Nameh [The Book of Kings].Northern India, 23 Jan. 1687 CE = 9 Rabi I 1098 H.

    $48,172.00
  • [United Arab Emirates]. Photograph of Sheikh Zayed raising the flag of independence at al-Diyafah …Dubai, 2 Dec 1971.

    $37,467.00
  • Boniface VIII, Pope (ca 1230-1303). Letter of indulgence for the church "Beati Nicolai" at the monastery of …St Peter, Rome, 1298.

    $26,762.00