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.

    $135,907.00
  • [Falconry]. Collection of ten original watercolours showing falcons.Probably Scandinavia, c. 1840.

    $16,309.00
  • Payer, Julius Rt. von, Kartograph und Polarforscher (1842-1915). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Wien, Beatrixgasse, 14 Jan 1893.

    $707.00
  • Kindleben, Christian Wilhelm. Galanterieen der Türken."Frankfurt und Leipzig" = Altona, 1783.

    $4,893.00

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.

    $48,926.00
  • Tusi, Muhamad ibn Muhamad ibn al-Hasan al-. Kitab Uqlidis fi ilm al-handasa [An exposition on mathematics and geometry …Early Safavid Persia, first half of the 16th century.

    $48,926.00
  • [Football Collection]. An Outstanding Collection of Books About Football, Removed From the Library …Various places, 1580-2014.

    $380,539.00
  • Einstein, Albert, German physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Autograph manuscript for "Bivector Fields II" (1944).N. p. o. d.

    $48,926.00