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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

  • Hunt, John, Baron Hunt, British mountaineer (1910-1998). Typed letter signed ("John Hunt").London, 19 Jun 1959.

    $910.00

  • [Order of Santiago]. Reformacion de los conventos de la Orden de Santiago.Habsburg Spain, 31 Oct 1569.

    $10,167.00

  • Robinson, John Henry, English artist (1796-1871). Autograph letter signed ("J. H. Robinson").16 Oxford Terrace, London, 13 Jul 1836.

    $268.00

  • [Israel - Jewish National Fund]. Erez Israel. Erets Yisra'el: adamah 'Ivrit.Jerusalem, ca. 1925.

    $2,676.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Rowling, J[oanne] K., English writer (b. 1965). Original miniature manuscript.N. p., 2004.

    $160,534.00

  • [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.

    $9,097.00

  • Schiele, Egon, Maler (1890-1918). Eigenh. Bildpostkarte mit U.Kovácspatak bei Budapest, 29 Jul 1918.

    $12,843.00

  • Ptolemaeus, Claudius [translated by Angelus, Jacobus, edited by Germanus, Nicolaus]. [Russia, Black Sea] Octava Europe tabula.Ulm, 16 Jul 1482.

    $53,511.00