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 pour la lune et les 5 planètes". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1735.

    $30,372.00
  • Manuel, G. S. Rahnuma-yi Dihli [Guide to Delhi].Delhi, 1874.

    $2,712.00
  • Darwin, Charles, English naturalist (1809-1882). Autograph letter signed.Down, Beckenham, Kent, 13 Jan 1881.

    $48,811.00
  • Ansary, S. E. / Andrawis, Samir F. / Fahmy, Saad E. Fourth Arab Petroleum Congress: Organized by the Secretariat General of …Cairo, 1963.

    $325.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Autographa.Weimar, Dezember 1811.

    $16,270.00
  • [Qur'an Juz' - China]. An illuminated Qur'an, Juz' XX, written in Beijing by a Muslim woman.Khanbaliq Cambaluc, Beijing, 10 Nov. 1623 CE = 17 Muharram 1033 H.

    $135,587.00
  • Sarre, Friedrich / Herzfeld, Ernst. Archäologische Reise im Euphrat- und Tigris-Gebiet.Berlin, 1911-1920.

    $8,135.00
  • Schönberg, Arnold, Austrian composer (1874-1951). Autograph letter signed and autogr. quotation signed.Los Angeles, 15 May 1949.

    $3,037.00