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.

    $3,260.00
  • [Biblia syriaca - NT]. The Gospels in Syriac.Lebanon, ca. 1790s CE.

    $38,036.00
  • [Roman inked wooden tablet]. Roman inked wooden tablet.Roman Empire, 4th century CE.

    $103,241.00
  • Tabari, Muhibb al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Abd Allah al-. Kitab al-simt al-thamin fi manaqib Ummahat al-Mu'minin [The Precious Book …Mecca, 5 Oct. 1457 CE = 16 Dhu'l-Qa'da 861 H.

    $59,771.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Astronomy]. Astronomical manuscript in Arabic.No place, late 18th century ca. 1785 CE / 1200 H.

    $13,584.00
  • [Logbook of HMS Effingham in the Gulf]. Larken, Francis Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy officer (1911-1985). Unpublished manuscript journal of a British voyage to the Gulf, containing …Middle East, mainly Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Africa, and India, 1928-1931, with additional material to 1951.

    $157,579.00
  • Chimani, Leopold. Bunte Scenerien aus dem Menschenleben. Ein Bilderbuch ganz neuer Art.Wien, 1836.

    $13,584.00
  • [Hinduism]. Illuminated Hinduistic manuscript.India, early 19th century.

    $10,324.00