A Popular Treatise on the History of the Origin and Development of Written Language; Espeially of Its Alphabetic Signs

Published by Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, Hartford, CT, 1883

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Hartford, CT: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1883. First edition, 1883. With five small illustrations. Includes heiroglyphics, Coptic langage, pictorial signs of Native American Indians and Mexico, symbolic signs among the Egyptians, verbal phonograms, syllabit phonograms, alphabetic phonograms, ideograms, differences between Chinese and Japanese languages, Rosetta stone, cartouches, acrological spelling, cuneiform characters, Hebrew letters, speculation about Atlantis, etc. Softcover, 44 pages. Light spotting to front cover, minor edge rubbing, firm binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Title
A Popular Treatise on the History of the Origin and Development of Written Language; Espeially of Its Alphabetic Signs
Author
Wood, George Ingersoll
Publisher
Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, Hartford, CT
Publication year
1883
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Paperback
Edition
First Edition.
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