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.

     125,000.00
  • João, King of Portugal. [Abolition of Financial Council in the Captaincy of Bahia]. Eu Elrey. Faço …Lisbon, 1770.

     2,500.00
  • Hillary, Sir Edmund, Bergsteiger (1919-2008). Ausschnitt mit eigenh. U.London?, Oktober 1953.

     250.00
  • (Douglas, H. P. / Glen, Graham Cunningham, eds.). Persian Gulf Pilot. Comprising the Persian Gulf and its approaches from …London, 1932.

     15,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [U.S. Air Force / NASA]. Lunar Astronautical Charts.St. Louis, Missouri, 1962-1967.

     15,000.00
  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph inscription signed in: Mao Zedong, "Hsin min-chu-chu-i lun" ("On …No place, 1942.

     1,000,000.00
  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

     4,500.00
  • Gauguin, Paul, French painter (1848-1903). Autograph letter signed "Paul Gauguin".Tahiti, July 1901.

     75,000.00