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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

  • Keynes, John Maynard, British economist (1883-1946). Typed letter signed ("JM Keynes").London, 22 Jun 1925.

    $8,154.00

  • Fiammelli, Giovanni Francesco. Il principe difeso [...]. Nel quale si tratta di fortificazione, oppugnazione, …Rome, 1604.

    $2,718.00

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

    $1,631.00

  • [Ethiopian Divinatory Text]. Awda Nagast [The Circle of the King].Ethiopia, late 18th or early 19th century CE.

    $10,329.00

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What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Ptolemaeus, Claudius [translated by Angelus, Jacobus, edited by Germanus, Nicolaus]. [Russia, Black Sea] Octava Europe tabula.Ulm, 16 Jul 1482.

    $54,363.00

  • [Kunstbüchlein]. Reich, Franz Joseph, Austrian artist (d. 1789). Kunstbiechlein in welchem mancherley bewerte unnd aprobierte Firneiß Polloment …Graz, ca. 1730-1788.

    $30,443.00

  • [Kunstbüchlein]. Kunstbüechlein Gerechten grüntlichen gebrauchs aller kunstbaren Werckleut.Germany, 1557.

    $15,222.00

  • [Biblia germanica - NT]. Luther, Martin. Das Newe Testament Mar. Luthers.Wittenberg, 1530.

    $81,544.00