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.] - Kinh, Paul, Vietnamese missionary (fl. 1744). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by Jean-Louis Roux M.E.P.Tonkin, 26 Jul 1744.

    $5,352.00
  • Verlaine, Paul. Liturgies intimes.Paris, 1892.

    $535.00
  • Zhao, Simone Paolo, Chinese Propagande Fide missionary in China (1722-1788). Autograph document signed.N. p., 7 Apr 1750.

    $3,747.00
  • Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Filocopo […] Di nuovo riveduto, corretto, & alla sua vera lettione …Venice, 1554.

    $2,409.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Yuhanna (Yahya) Abu Zakariya ibn Masawaih (Mesue). De re medica, libri tres. Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete.Paris, 1544.

    $29,973.00
  • Watt, James, Scottish inventor (1736-1819). Autograph letter signed ("James Watt").Birmingham, 29 Dec 1818.

    $2,676.00
  • [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.

    $133,810.00
  • Kauffmann, Angelika, painter (1741-1807). Autograph letter signed.Rome, 18 Nov 1792.

    $10,170.00