Our catalogue for Firsts - London's Rare Book Fair

Download complete pdf catalogue (8 MB)

Our pdf catalogue (22 MB) for the Abu Dhabi Book Fair

Download complete pdf (8 MB)

Free shipping worldwide extended to all registered customers

Set up your account today or choose a password after placing your first order

Serving the great universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide

Gift Ideas

Unconditional guarantee of authenticity

All items guaranteed as described

All shipments fully insured and trackable door-to-door

Exhibiting at fairs internationally

An international team of experts to answer your questions

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.

    $133,930.00

  • Arvieux, Laurent d' / Ödman, Samuel (transl). Arabernas seder och lefnadssätt.Uppsala, 1783.

    $1,018.00

  • Maeder, Alphonse, Psychiater und Psychoanalytiker (1882-1971). 5 eigenh. Briefentwürfe und 2 ms. Briefdurchschläge.Zürich, 1916-1918.

    $4,821.00

  • [Beauchamp-Proctor, William, British Navy officer (1781-1861). Dictionary of Egypt].No place, ca. 1820.

    $3,000.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Bombay Geographical Society. The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1868 …Bombay, 1874.

    $150,002.00

  • [Russia - Edinburgh Missionary Society]. Report of the Edinburgh Missionary Society, for 1817 [and: 1818].Edinburgh, 1817-1818.

    $911.00

  • Sulayman al-Tajir / Abu Zaid Hasan ibn Yazid, al-Sirafi / Renaudot, Eusèbe (ed.). [Silsilat al-tawarik - Italian]. Antiche relazioni dell' Indie, e della …Bologna, 1749.

    $10,179.00

  • [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.

    $133,930.00