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

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

     125,000.00
  • [Ibn Butlan]. [Taqwim al Sihha - latine]. Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar medici …Strasbourg, 1531.

     95,000.00
  • Halbe, Max, Schriftsteller (1865-1944). Eigenh. Brief mit U. und eh. Gedichtmanuskript mit U.München und o. O., 05.06.1904 und o. D.

     220.00
  • [Ottoman state newspaper]. Takvim-i Vekayi'. Issues 201-400.Istanbul, 1840-1849 CE = 1256-1265 H.

     4,500.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955). Typed letter signed.Zürich, 16 Jun 1949.

     4,500.00
  • Al-Qabisi, Abu Al Saqr 'Abd Al-'Aziz Ibn 'Uthman Ibn 'Ali (Alchabitius). Libellus isagogicus (Al-madkhal), with the commentary of Johannes de Saxonia …Likely Germany Limburg an der Lahn, 1500-1524.

     165,000.00
  • [Hinduism]. Sanskrit scroll.India, Rajasthan, 19th century.

     3,500.00
  • Reichs-Marine-Amt. Segelhandbuch für den Persischen Golf.Berlin, 1907.

     7,500.00