URANIA Typewriter Keyboard Catalogue

URANIA Typewriter Keyboard Catalogue – 58 International Keyboard Layouts Including Arabic, Japanese, Cyrillic, and Gothic

Katalog sämtlicher Tastaturen der Urania- und Urania-Piccola-Schreibmaschinen [Catalogue of All Keyboard Layouts for the Urania and Urania-Piccola Typewriters]. Dresden: Clemens Müller Aktiengesellschaft (Näh- und Schreibmaschinenfabrik), n.d. [ca. 1920s]. 8vo. 26[1] pp. Original printed pale blue wrappers. Very good condition.

A remarkable and uncommon manufacturer's catalogue illustrating the extensive range of interchangeable keyboard layouts available for the Urania and Urania-Piccola typewriters. Produced by the Dresden-based Clemens Müller AG, the booklet demonstrates the firm's ambition to market its machines internationally by offering no fewer than 58 different keyboard configurations.

The layouts encompass an extraordinary variety of languages and writing systems, including German (several variants), Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Romanian, Bulgarian (Cyrillic), Russian, Greek, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Dutch, Belgian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Persian, Urdu, Siamese (Thai), and Japanese Katakana, together with specialized commercial and regional layouts for markets such as Shanghai, Manila, Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, and others. The catalogue also includes a rare German Gothic (Fraktur) keyboard alongside numerous multilingual combinations.