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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

  • Thoma, Ludwig, Schriftsteller (1867-1921). Eigenh. Brief mit U.München, 14 Feb 1903.

    € 1,500.00

  • Hill, Richard Leslie. A Bibliography of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan From the Earliest Times to 1937.London, 1939.

    € 350.00

  • Lagerlöf, Selma, Schriftstellerin und Nobelpreisträgerin (1858-1940). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Marstrand, 5 Jul 1899.

    € 350.00

  • [London Conference]. Photograph from the London Conference.London, 17 Feb 1939.

    € 250.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

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

    € 95,000.00

  • [Slave Trade]. Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of …London, 1892.

    € 35,000.00

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dichter (1749-1832). Eigenh. Gedichtmanuskript mit U.O. O., Februar 1825.

    € 58,000.00

  • [Zanzibar]. The Gazette for Zanzibar.Zanzibar, 1912-13, 1918 and 1920.

    € 25,000.00