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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

  • Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry, Polar explorer (1874-1922). Album leaf signed.No place, 22 Jul 1921.

    $1,360.00

  • [Dominicus de St. Thomae (Dominique Ottoman), Dominican friar (ca. 1639-1676)]. Le vray portrait de frere Dominique Ottoman fils d'Hibrahim premier Empereur …No place, 1664.

    $1,632.00

  • Goethe, Walther Wolfgang Freiherr von, Kammerherr und Komponist (1818-1885). Lithographierte Visitenkarte.O. O., wohl 1850er Jahre.

    $1,958.00

  • [Waqidi, Abu Abd Allah al-]. Futuh Ifriqiya [The Conquest of Ifriqiya].Sub-Saharan Africa or Sudan, 16 January 1898 CE = 22 Sha'ban 1315 H.

    $2,720.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Lafosse, Georges. Les Musulmans dans le monde.Paris, ca. 1952.

    $3,808.00

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

    $103,356.00

  • [Hauslab, Franz von]. Darstellung der K. K. Oesterreichischen Armee mit allen Chargen [...].Vienna, 1823.

    $10,336.00

  • [United Arab Emirates]. Photograph of Sheikh Zayed raising the flag of independence at al-Diyafah …Dubai, 2 Dec 1971.

    $38,079.00