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Founded in 1883 in Vienna, where their main offices are still located, Antiquariat Inlibris is among the most reputable companies in the industry. With a stock of no fewer than 50,000 items they form one of the largest non-institutional, privately owned repositories of rare books, historical manuscripts and autographs. Over the past century they have served the most renowned universities, museums, and national libraries worldwide by supplying them with collections as well as with individual items of the utmost importance and rarity. Today, the company is represented through registered branches in Europe, the United States and the Middle East, maintaining offices in Vienna, New York City, and Sharjah (UAE).

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Libri rethoricarum artium libri II. Rein Abbey, Styria, c. 1100.
$773000
An outstanding witness to medieval teaching and learning, this richly illustrated manuscript of Cicero's earliest work on rhetoric combines an extensive apparatus of glosses and diagrams with substantial additions of medieval Latin verse. Its exceptional format, fine early protogothic script, decorated initials and carefully planned presentation of text and commentary make it a substantial monument of medieval learning.
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The largest photograph in the world: never seen on the market. [Fra Mauro Mappa Mundi - Carlo Naya]. Life-size 1871 photograph of the Fra Mauro map of the world.
$193300
Photograph of the Fra Mauro mappamundi, ca. 223 x 223 cm (when joined). 16 albumen prints, each measuring 600 x 600 mm and mounted on the original cardboard, mounted on linen. Loosely stored in original cloth portfolio, marbled boards, ties intact. - A life-sized photograph of the famous world map made around 1450 by Fra Mauro, the greatest medieval map of the world: an astonishing accomplishment of art history, cartography, and photography.
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The earliest known copy of the first humanist Latin grammar. - Gaspar Veronensis (Gaspar of Verona). Regulae de constructione. Italy, Veneto [possibly Verona], 1463.
$104700
8vo (ca. 125 x 180 mm). Latin manuscript on vellum. 55, (1) ff., textually complete, ruled space ca. 70 x 115 mm, 24 lines in a fine Humanistic script signed and dated by the scribe. - An exceptional medieval manuscript of Gaspar of Verona's Latin grammar "Regulae de constructione", here in the earliest known dated copy, signed and dated by the scribe and preserved in its original binding. This manuscript was created during the lifetime of the author, and barely a day’s ride from his hometown.
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The most important 13th-century textbook of canon law. - Decretales Gregorii IX. Bologna, ca. 1260.
$217400
Latin manuscript on vellum. Decorated manuscript on vellum. Folio. 252 ff. 41-42 lines, 2 columns, surrounded by gloss in smaller script, headings in red, running titles and 1-line initials in red and blue, with larger blue and red flourished penwork initials throughout. - An imposing folio manuscript of the most important legal textbook of the 13th century, in its original binding.
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Cosmology and wonder-tales, splendidly illustrated. - Qazwini, Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-. [A section of The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence]. India, late 18th/early 19th century CE.
$72500
Persian manuscript on paper. Folio (190 x 310 mm). 212 ff. - The great work of the cosmographer al-Qazwini: a manuscript comprising several sections of his "'Aja'ib al-Makhluqat", wonderfully illustrated with over one hundred and seventy miniatures. These colourful paintings show the astrological signs, an astronomer at work with telescope and astrolabe, a series of Islamic angels, a particularly wide range of mystical beasts, including a phoenix and dragon, numerous fish both real and imagined, including one full-page watery scene, etc.
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Foundation document for the history of the exploration of Australia and the Pacific. - Pedro Fernández de Quirós, explorer and navigator (1563-1614). Manuscript memorial to Philip III of Spain. [Madrid, possibly before September 1611].
$563700
Folio (ca. 315 × 220 mm). Spanish manuscript, ink on paper. (22) pp. + 2 lines, blank verso, 2 final blank leaves, the last docketed "Del Capitan Quiros" on verso. - One of the greatest rarities in the field of voyage and exploration: an original manuscript petition, not recorded in any other copy, written to the King of Spain by the Portuguese-Spanish seafarer and discoverer Pedro Fernández de Quirós, proposing to settle the "Austral lands" for the Spanish crown.
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How Buddhahood may be realized in one’s present body: a 14th-century manuscript of 28 metres. - Seishin.Japan, 1352 CE.
$177200
Manuscript, complete in two scrolls (both 25 cm high, 15 and 13 meters long). - An imposing medieval witness to one of the central ideas of Shingon Buddhism. This complete two-volume manuscript preserves extracts from Seishin's Sokushin-gi Mitsudan-sho, with a dated colophon by its scribe Kenpo, and thus offers an early and clearly dated example of the scholastic tradition that grew around Kukai’s doctrine that Buddhahood may be realized in one's present body.
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Al-Zarquali's astronomical tables: a precious Renaissance manuscript, completed at Toledo around 1080. - Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Zarqali / Giovanni Bianchini (ed.). Tabulae de motibus planetarum. [Ferrara, ca. 1475].
$451000
The so-called "Toledan Tables" are astronomical tables used to predict the movements of the Sun, Moon and planets relative to the fixed stars. They were completed around the year 1080 at Toledo by a group of Arab astronomers, led by the mathematician and astronomer Al-Zarqali (known to the Western World as Arzachel), and were first updated in the 1270s, afterwards to be referred to as the "Alfonsine Tables of Toledo".
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The first Armenian atlas - Hovhannes Amira Dadian (Tatean). Atlas ashkharhats'oyts' patkerats'. Venice, Monastery of St. Lazarus, 1849.Folio (454 x 595 mm). (4), 46 pp. With 10 hand-coloured double-page engraved maps.
$104700
The first world atlas in the Armenian language, published by the Mekhitarist monastery of San Lazaro under the patronage of Yovhannes Dadian (Tatean), with text and map lettering entirely in Armenian. The ten maps depict the solar system, the world in double hemispheres, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Oceania, together with separate maps of ancient Armenia and the Ottoman Empire. All the maps were engraved in Paris, principally after contemporary French models.
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First edition of the book that inspired the Red Cross - Henry Dunant. Un souvenir de Solferino. Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1862.
$20200
4to (180 x 266 mm). (4), 115, (1) pp. With the double-page "Plan des environs de Solférino". Brown half cloth over marbled boards, smooth spine ruled in blind, small green cloth corners. - First edition of the book that inspired the Red Cross. Dunant's seminal account of the Battle of Solferino and its wounded, privately printed at his own expense, in the issue bearing the words "Ne se vend pas" on the title-page. This copy preserves the important double-page plan prepared by B. Müller, captain in the Swiss engineer corps, after Dunant's own directions.
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