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

  • [Chinese rites controversy, Vicariate of Western Tonkin.] - Huan, François, Vietnamese missionary (fl. 1750). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the Vicar Apostolic of Western …Tonkin, 20 Dec 1750.

    $4,340.00
  • Le Dran, Henri-François. Traité ou reflexions tirées de la pratique sur les playes d'armes à …Paris, 1740.

    $629.00
  • Hemingway, Ernest, American writer and Nobel Laureate (1899-1961). Autograph letter signed.Paris, 6 November 1933.

    $16,273.00
  • [Occultism]. Occult Arabic manuscript.Middle East and Northern Africa, ca. 1800 / probably 18th or early 19th c.

    $7,052.00

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.

    $13,561.00
  • Rowling, J[oanne] K., English writer (b. 1965). Original miniature manuscript.N. p., 2004.

    $162,732.00
  • Vesalius, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.Basel, June 1543.

    $379,708.00
  • Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

    $103,063.00