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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

  • Strauss, Richard, Komponist (1864-1949). 3 eigenh. Briefe mit U.Garmisch, 1924 und 1928.

    $12,857.00

  • Hand, T[homas] H[enry] H[erbert], Royal Indian Navy surveyor and marine painter (1870-1933). "Off Linga, Persian Gulf". Original watercolour.Bandar Lengeh, Iran, ca. 1904.

    $3,750.00

  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827). Autograph sketchleaf for op. 117, "König Stephan" ("Ungarns erster Wohltäter").Teplitz, 1811.

    $375,004.00

  • [Salt, Henry]. Egypt. A Descriptive Poem with Notes by a Traveller.Alexandria, 1824.

    $9,107.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Bruckner, Anton, Komponist (1824-1896). Großformatige Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. U.Wohl Wien, 1891.

    $37,500.00

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

    $48,215.00

  • Celan, Paul, German-language poet (1920-1970). Todesfuge. Typescript signed ("Paul Celan").Probably Bucharest, c. 1946?.

    $26,786.00

  • Kubin, Alfred, Graphiker und Schriftsteller (1877-1959). 44 eigenh. Briefe und Karten mit U.Meist Zwickledt, 1934 bis 1950.

    $23,572.00