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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

  • [Kafka, Franz, writer (1883-1924)]. Busse, Ludwig. Geist und Körper, Seele und Leib.Leipzig, 1903.

    € 35,000.00

  • Benjamin, I[srael] J[oseph]. Eight Years in Asia and Africa From 1846 to 1855.Hanover, 1863.

    € 950.00

  • Altenberg, Peter, Schriftsteller (1959-1919). Eigenh. Manuskript mit U.Wien, April 1904.

    € 1,500.00

  • [British Foreign Office]. Correspondence Respecting the Turco-Egyptian Frontier in the Sinai Peninsula.London, 1906.

    € 650.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Friedell, Egon, Schriftsteller (1878-1938). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Wien, 20. IX. 1922.

    € 950.00

  • [Hinduism]. Illuminated Hinduistic manuscript.India, early 19th century.

    € 9,500.00

  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of nineteen masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

    € 200,000.00

  • Ibrâhim Haqqi, Erzurumlu. Marifetname [The Book of Knowledge and Skills].Ottoman Empire, 1235 AH 1819/20 AD.

    € 28,000.00