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

  • Hesing (aka Xi Cheng or Xi Sheng), Mandarin who travelled in the Keying, first Chinese junk to ever sail from Hong Kong to New York and further to London. Portrait drawing of Hesing. Signed ("Hesing") in bold black ink at the …Blackwall, 20 June 1848.

     4,500.00
  • [India - Varanasi]. [Guide to Benares].Delhi, 1896.

     800.00
  • Eysler, Edmund, Komponist (1874-1949). Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("Mundy-Popschi").O. O., um 1947.

     250.00
  • [Dubai - photograph album]. [Photo album - Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum].Iraq, ca. 1975.

     9,500.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Vasif, Ahmet. Mahasin al-athar wa-haqaiq al-akhbar.Bulaq, 1246 1830.

     4,500.00
  • Hese, Johannes Witte de. Itinerarius Joannis de Hese presbyteri a Hierusalem describens dispositiones …Deventer, 1504.

     45,000.00
  • Reissig, Kornelius Khristianovich. Sozviezdiia predstavlennyia na XXX tablitsakh. [Presentation of constellations …St Petersburg, 1829.

     35,000.00
  • Mackay, Ulrich Sinclair Peter, RAF pilot (1904-1945). Two photo albums of private and operational (restricted) photos of campaigns …Mainly Middle East, 1928-1931.

     45,000.00