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 Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

    $135,184.00
  • [Hydrographic Office]. [UK Admiralty Charts: The Arabian Gulf].London, 1967.

    $2,163.00
  • Stanley, Henry Morton, African explorer (1841-1904). Clipped signature.N. p. o. d.

    $649.00
  • Maragha'i, Rukn al-din Awhadi [known as Awhad al- din Isfahani]. Jam'i Jam [The Cup of Jamshid].Timurid Herat, 1459/60 CE = 863 H.

    $811,104.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Mahler-Werfel, Alma, Komponistin und Schriftstellerin (1879-1964). Eigenh. Brief mit U.New York, 13 Nov 1947.

    $2,596.00
  • [Hinduism]. Illuminated Hinduistic manuscript.India, early 19th century.

    $10,274.00
  • Chimani, Leopold. Bunte Scenerien aus dem Menschenleben. Ein Bilderbuch ganz neuer Art.Wien, 1836.

    $13,518.00
  • [La Pira, Gioacchino, Italian painter (active 1839-1870) - attrib.]. A group of ten masterly gouaches of Naples and surroundings from the collection …Naples, ca. 1855-1866.

    $135,184.00