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.] - Phan, François, Vietnamese missionary (fl. 1750). Autograph document signed. Co-signed by the Vicar Apostolic of Western …Tonkin, 16 Aug 1750.

    $2,712.00
  • Qastallani, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-. Irshad al-sari li-sharh Sahih al-Bukhari.Egypt, 18th century CE.

    $19,525.00
  • Heidegger, Martin. Hegel und die Griechen.Tübingen, 1960.

    $705.00
  • [Ibn Sina (Avicenna)]. Welsch (Velschius), Georg Hieronymus. Exercitatio de vena Medinensi, ad mentem Ebnsinae, sive de dracunculis …Augsburg, 1674.

    $32,541.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,881.00
  • Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), revolutionary, Marxist thinker, founder of the Soviet Union (1870-1924). Autograph inscription signed, together with Leon Trotsky.No place or date, November 1917.

    $103,046.00
  • Mao Zedong, Chinese statesman (1893-1976). Autograph album signed by Mao Zedong and Chou Enlai.Beijing, 8 Jan 1963.

    $271,175.00
  • [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.

    $135,587.00