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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

  • Freud, Sigmund, Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939). Autograph letter signed ("Freud").Vienna, 28 Jul 1927.

    $23,935.00

  • Watson, James D., American Nobel laureate, molecular biologist, and geneticist (b. 1928). DNA: The Secret of Life.New York, 2003.

    $1,088.00

  • [Trucial States - Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi]. Two early documents.Sharjah and Ras Al-Khaimah, 1943 and 1966.

    $16,319.00

  • Lawrence, D[avid] H[erbert]. Lady Chatterley's Lover.Florence, 1928.

    $6,528.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $38,079.00

  • Haydn, Joseph. Ariana a Naxos. Cantata a Voce Sola. Accompagnata col Clavicembalo o Forte-Piano.London, Juni 1791.

    $16,319.00

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, poet (1749-1832). "Die Feier des siebenten Novembers 1825 | Dankbar zu erwiedern [!]". Broadsheet …No place, 1832.

    $4,896.00

  • Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

    $103,356.00