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

  • Dumas, Alexandre (fils), French writer (1824-1895). Autograph letter signed.Dieppe, 31 Aug. 1888, postmark.

    $268.00
  • [Journals - Western and Central Asia; India]. Olaf Caroe, Aurel Stein, Richard Temple, Francis Younghusband and others. [Large collection of journal articles about the scientific exploration …Various places, including London and Calcutta, 1837-1981.

    $37,500.00
  • Ratzinger, Joseph (Benedikt XVI.), Theologe und Papst (1927-2022). Gedr. Empfehlungskarte mit eigenh. U.Vatikan, nach 1982.

    $482.00
  • Montalboddo, Fracanzano da. Itinerarium Portugallensium e Lusitania in Indiam et inde in occidentem …Milan, 1508.

    $589,292.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    $160,716.00
  • Firdawsi, Abu’l-Qasim. Shah Nameh [The Book of Kings].Northern India, 23 Jan. 1687 CE = 9 Rabi I 1098 H.

    $48,215.00
  • Schubert, Franz, composer (1797-1828). [Variations on a French Song, op. 10, D. 624 (fragment)]. Autograph musical …Vienna, September 1818.

    $101,787.00
  • [Palestine]. Album fotografico delle principali vedute della Palestina con apposite …Turin, 1870s, at least before 1878.

    $9,107.00