Autograph Letter Signed "Spineto" to Henry Colburn, publisher, arguing that his pet subjects are not "exhausted".

Published by No place Watermark, 1832

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Two pages, cr. 8vo, bifolium, segment cut from bifoliate leaf, no obvious loss, fair condition, text clear and complete. "I called to enquire after the notice & took the liberty of sending you {last phrase insert] about the lectures I am now giving at the London Institution - & was surprised to hear that the Editor of the literary Gazette considers the subject perfectly exhausted - For I have the honour to tell you the view I now take of the origin of polytheism-worship- of animals - Mythology & Idolatry is quite new - for it traces the whole to the original coptic words or names by which the hieroglyphics ["were" excised] exhibiting the different applications of the power of the Supreme Being were termed - as far as I know no one ever went as far- tho' perhaps from Bacon to our time may authors have surmised that this might [underlined] be the case, but never any one has shown that this was [underlined] the case.-I hope therefore that the Editor will have the goodness to look over my paper once more - & favour me with inserting it in the next number. Note: Spineto's "Elements of Hieroglyphics and Egyptian Antiquities in a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution . . ." was published in 1829 by Colburn.…

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Title
Autograph Letter Signed "Spineto" to Henry Colburn, publisher, arguing that his pet subjects are not "exhausted".
Author
Marquis Spineto, Italian nobleman emigre, Egyptologist
Publisher
No place Watermark
Publication year
1832

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