The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind
Language: English
Published by Philosophical Library, 1948
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Philosophical Library, [No date: circa 1948]. Hardcover, 607 pp.; 24 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, figures, and script tables throughout. Probable reprint of the First Edition (not the Second and Revised Edition). In Good condition, no dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gold lettering to spine. Mild shelf wear to board edges with some bumping to corners; light wear at spine head; gold spine lettering remains bright and legible. Spine mildly cocked but binding is still sound. Front pastedown heavily toned with a striated offset pattern; facing free endpaper lightly toned. Text pages lightly toned. Otherwise unmarked. Contents include: Foreword by Sir Ellis Minns; Preface; Introduction; First Part: Non-Alphabetic Systems of Writing: Cuneiform Writing; Hieroglyphic Writing; Cretan Scripts; Indus Valley Civilization and its Undeciphered Script; Hittites and their Scripts; Chinese Language and Writing; Ancient Central America and Mexico, and their Scripts; Mysterious Script of Easter Island; Other Ideographic Scripts; Syllabic Systems of Writing; Quasi-Alphabetic Scripts; Second Part: Alphabetic Scripts: Origin of Alphabet; South Semitic Alphabets; Canaanite Branch; Aramaic Branch; Non-Semitic Offshoots of Aramaic Branch; Indian Branch; Further-Indian Branch; The Greek Alphabet and its Offshoots; Etruscan and Italic Alphabets; The Latin Alphabet; Conclusion; General Bibliography; Index. Diringer's comprehensive history of the development of writing, tracing both non-alphabetic systems (cuneiform, hieroglyphic, Cretan, Indus Valley, Hittite, Chinese, Maya, Easter Island, syllabic, and quasi-alphabetic scripts) and alphabetic scripts from their Semitic origins through the Greek, Etruscan, and Latin alphabets. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, figures, and script tables. David Diringer (1900-1975), a British linguist and paleographer born in Tlumach, Galicia, was a leading scholar of ancient scripts.…
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- The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind
- Author
- David Diringer
- Publisher
- Philosophical Library
- Publication year
- 1948
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
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