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

  • Schopenhauer, Arthur, philosopher (1788-1860). Autograph manuscript.No place or date.

    $243,731.00
  • [Karl, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Teschen]. Grundsätze der höhern Kriegskunst und Beyspiele ihrer zweckmässigen …Vienna, 1808.

    $10,291.00
  • Britten, Benjamin, English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913-1976). Autograph signature, co-signed by Sir Peter Pears (1910-1986).N. p. o. d.

    $282.00
  • [Ibn Sina (Avicenna)]. Welsch (Velschius), Georg Hieronymus. Exercitatio de vena Medinensi, ad mentem Ebnsinae, sive de dracunculis …Augsburg, 1674.

    $32,497.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • [Kunstbüchlein]. Reich, Franz Joseph, Austrian artist (d. 1789). Kunstbiechlein in welchem mancherley bewerte unnd aprobierte Firneiß Polloment …Graz, ca. 1730-1788.

    $30,331.00
  • Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. [De architectura libri decem].Venice, 22 May 1511.

    $81,244.00
  • Mandeville, John. Reysen und Wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land.Strasbourg, 1488.

    $487,462.00
  • Rowling, J[oanne] K., English writer (b. 1965). Original miniature manuscript.N. p., 2004.

    $162,487.00