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

  • Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Fritz, Schriftsteller und Zeichner (1877-1954). Eigenh. Brief mit U.Meran, Schloß Rametz, 31 Mar 1954.

    $2,717.00

  • Lees, G[eorge] M[artin]. The Search for Oil.London and Beccles, 1940.

    $326.00

  • Pauli, Wolfgang, Austrian-born, Swiss theoretical physicist; winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics. 2 autograph postcards signed ("Pauli").Goettingen, 15 and 17 Dec. 1921.

    $9,237.00

  • Jawdat, Al-Sayyid. Muhadarat Kubri al-Khidiwi Isma'il (Kubri Qas al-Nil). [Lecture on the …Misr Cairo, 1932.

    $326.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Klimt, Gustav, painter (1862-1918). Portrait photograph inscribed and signed.Probably Vienna, no date.

    $130,410.00

  • Pereyra, Antonio Pinto. Historia no Tempo em que a Gouernovo Viso Rey Dom Luis de Ataide.Coimbra, 1616.

    $16,301.00

  • [Astrological Volvelle]. [Dell' hore planetarie].Italy Genoa?, ca. 1650?.

    $13,584.00

  • Roberts, David. Egypt & Nubia, from Drawings Made on the Spot With Historical Descriptions …London, 1846-1849.

    $103,241.00