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

  • Tesla, Nikola, Serbian-American inventor (1856-1943). Autograph letter signed ("N. Tesla").New York, 26 Jan 1894.

    $27,168.00
  • [Oman]. Cole, C. S. D. An Account of an Overland Journey from Leskkairee to Meskat and the "Green …Bombay, 1849.

    $13,584.00
  • Grolman, Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von, Jurist und Ministerpräsident (1775-1829). Gedr. Formularbrief mit hs. Eintragungen und eigenh. U. sowie hs. Dokument …Magdeburg, 21. VIII. 1821 und 10. III. 1823.

    $239.00
  • [Arabic and English vocabulary and phrasebook]. The Interpreter in the Arabic and English Languages, Consisting of Nouns, …N. p., ca. 1830s.

    $10,324.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Hese, Johannes Witte de. Itinerarius Joannis de Hese presbyteri a Hierusalem describens dispositiones …Deventer, 1504.

    $48,902.00
  • [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.

    $135,838.00
  • Engels, Friedrich, political theorist (1820-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Frédéric Engels").London, 11 Mar 1873.

    $434,682.00
  • Ali Riza Effendi, First Lieutenant in the Ottoman Army. Medine-i Münevvere Civarlarina Memuriyet Hatirasi [Memoirs of public service …Ottoman Empire, Syria and Hejaz, Sept./Oct. 1916 CE = Eylül 1332 Rumi Calendar.

    $16,301.00