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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

  • Bruch, Max, Komponist (1838-1920). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Hinterzarten bei Freiburg i. Br.

    $1,607.00

  • Vansittart, Henry. A Narrative of the Transactions in Bengal, From the Year 1760, to the Year …London, 1766.

    $3,750.00

  • Kokoschka, Oskar, Maler, Graphiker und Schriftsteller (1886-1980). 3 eigenh. Briefe mit U. ("OK").Cornwall und o. O., 1939/1940.

    $6,964.00

  • 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

  • Breydenbach, Bernhard von. [Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, germanice:] Dis buch ist innhaltend die …Speyer, between 1502 and 1505.

    $198,216.00

  • [DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others. The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and …London, 1953.

    $10,179.00

  • [Cabala]. Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: in Letters …London, 1663.

    $4,821.00

  • Tusi, Muhamad ibn Muhamad ibn al-Hasan al-. Kitab Uqlidis fi ilm al-handasa [An exposition on mathematics and geometry …Early Safavid Persia, first half of the 16th century.

    $48,215.00