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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

  • Pedrini, Teodorico, Italian missionary, musician, and composer at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1671-1746). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the bishop of Beijing, Polycarpo …Beijing, 1642-1646.

    $3,255.00

  • Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation. Al-Batrul [Petroleum Magazine].Cairo, September 1969.

    $325.00

  • [Wiener Künstler des frühen 20. Jhdts.]. Albumblatt mit 20 eigenh. U. von namhaften Musikern, Malern und Schriftstellern.Österreich, um 1920.

    $1,627.00

  • Hume, W[illiam] F[raser]. The Rift Valleys & Geology of Eastern Sinai.London, 1901.

    $488.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $48,818.00

  • Wagner, Richard, Komponist (1813-1883). "Prière d'Elisabeth". Eigenh. musikalisches Albumblatt mit U.Paris, 7 Jun 1861.

    $28,206.00

  • Megiser, Hieronymus. Institutionum linguae Turcicae, libri quatuor [...].Leipzig and Breslau, 1612.

    $62,921.00

  • 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.

    $103,061.00