primeval language traced experimentally ancient von forster rev charles (6 Ergebnisse)

hard cover, green cloth, gilt decoration to front cover, spine has been covered/ repaired with black buckram, 190pp, black and white engraved illustration as frontispiece, many other fold out plates and illustrations depicting alphabets and symbols throughout the text, previous owner's name, bookbinder's label, embossed stamp, cloth is a little worn, ring water stain to front cover, edges of pages browned, binding firm, internally all in good to very good condition. Photo available on request.

Cloth. Zustand: Fair. Second/first. 8vo. 3 vols (complete) Vol 1, 2nd ed.,1852, Vols 2 and 3 first editions. 1853/4. 36 folding litho plates and maps of which 4 coloured. Wanting spine of vol 1. Marginal damp stain to litho plates . Ex lib. with occasional stamps and perforated stamp to t.p.s. Contents tight in bindings. Original cloth gilt. Faded and stained, Fair/good. Images available on request.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. 8vo, pp. xiv, 190, folded map to rear, this poorly folded in past and foxed, folding alphabets throughout, some reinforced, original dark green cloth with gilt and blind decoration and lettering, spine rubbed, corners bumped, interior with bookplate to fep, presentation inscription to half title, this page coming away from binding, foxing to plates and adjacent pages, marks throughout, binding otherwise sound.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. .in alphhabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents: includoing the voice of Israel from the rocks of Sinai: and the vestiges of patriarchal tradition from the monuments of Egypt, Etruria, and southern Arabia.; With illustrative plates, A Harmonized Table of Alphabets, Glossaries, and Translations.; Volume II 1853, volume III 1854; Green cloth, gilt spine titles, gilt device to each cover, & several fold-outs: A good set with moderate loss to heads & tails, one rear inner hinge tender, & armorial bookplate vol.II & III; 162, 300, & 351 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: g to vg. First edition. Large Octavo. xvi, 182pp., 6 fold-outs, vi, (6) 300pp., 12 fold-outs,1 sleeve with fold-out. Dark green cloth with blind-stamped ruling and gilt illustration with reverse lettering on front, gilt lettering and blind-stamped ruling on spines, with additional sleeve with gilt lettering on cover housing a large (36 x 24"), linen-backed fold-out chart comparing 45 different ancient alphabets. Frontispiece engraving. Including "The Voice of Israel, From the Rocks of Sinai: and the Vestiges of Patriarchal Tradition from the Monuments of Egypt, Etruria, and Southern Arabia. With Illustrative Plates, A Harmonized Table of Alphabets, Glossaries, and Translations." lllustrated throughout in offset exquisite lithographs of artwork in text, on plates and multiple fold-outs. Forster, one of the six preachers of the Cathedral of Canterbury, and rector of Stisted, Essex, expounds on the interrelatedness of knowledge transmitted through a common ancient Egyptian language source. He believes that ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Semitic alphabet have pictographic commonality that was then passed to Christianity. The third volume map is titled A Harmony of Primeval Alphabets. It compares the alphabets of Hebrew from Ethiopia, Arabic, Rosetta Enchorial Alphabet, the Etruscan Alphabet, and 39 other from around the world, even South America. The letters are organized by chart divided by language and type of letter. For example, you can see A, and scroll your eyes across the page to see all the various forms of the letter A, from every civilization from Babylonian to Celtiberian. Some wear along edges, small bumps and rubbed. Spine of vol. 1 frayed at head and tail, small chips at top and middle back joint. Small sticker in left upper corner of inside front cover with handwritten number. Vol. 2 covers rubbed, starting at inside cover and small ink blots on free front endpaper. Cloth sleeve with light discoloration on front cover. Bindings and interiors in overall good to very good condition.

1st ed. Published 1851-1854. Literary Institution label & accession on front pastedown of volume 1, with accession number on spine., Spines a little bumped, with wear to cloth of vol.1; vol.1 spine browned, with mottling to cloth on boards; vols 2 & 3 very clean. Used - Very Good. VG hardbacks in dark green cloth with gilt.