COURT DE GEBELIN, Antoine. Histoire naturelle de la parole, ou précis de l'origine du langage & de la grammaire universelle. Extrait du monde primitive . Paris, for the author, 1776. 8°. Engraved frontispiece, folding engraved table and one folding mezzotint plate printed in colour by Gautier d'Agoty (very light, mainly marginal, browning). Contemporary mottled calf (joints and corners skilfully repaired). FIRST EDITION of this extract from the author's nine volume Le Monde primitive , consisting of volumes II and III, on universal grammar and the origin of language and writing. It contains a magnificent colour plate of the vocal organs by Gautier d'Agoty, the founder of the four-plate process of mezzotinting. Blake, p. 101; Wellcome II, 399.
COURT DE GEBELIN, Antoine. Histoire naturelle de la parole, ou précis de l'origine du langage & de la grammaire universelle. Extrait du monde primitive . Paris, for the author, 1776. 8°. Engraved frontispiece, folding engraved table and one folding mezzotint plate printed in colour by Gautier d'Agoty (very light, mainly marginal, browning). Contemporary mottled calf (joints and corners skilfully repaired). FIRST EDITION of this extract from the author's nine volume Le Monde primitive , consisting of volumes II and III, on universal grammar and the origin of language and writing. It contains a magnificent colour plate of the vocal organs by Gautier d'Agoty, the founder of the four-plate process of mezzotinting. Blake, p. 101; Wellcome II, 399. With three other works, a first edition of Erasmus Middleton's (and others) The New Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; or an universal system of useful knowledge (London, 1778, 2 vols. in one), a first edition of William Robertson's Phraseologia generalis. A Full, Large and General Phrase Book; comprehending, whatsoever is necessary and most usefull, in all other phraseological books, (hitherto, here, published;) and methodologically digested (Cambridge,1681), and the first French translation of Bonifacio Sotos Ochando's Projet d'une langue universelle (Paris, 1855). (4)
COURT DE GEBELIN, Antoine. Histoire naturelle de la parole, ou précis de l'origine du langage & de la grammaire universelle. Extrait du monde primitive . Paris, for the author, 1776. 8°. Engraved frontispiece, folding engraved table and one folding mezzotint plate printed in colour by Gautier d'Agoty (very light, mainly marginal, browning). Contemporary mottled calf (joints and corners skilfully repaired). FIRST EDITION of this extract from the author's nine volume Le Monde primitive , consisting of volumes II and III, on universal grammar and the origin of language and writing. It contains a magnificent colour plate of the vocal organs by Gautier d'Agoty, the founder of the four-plate process of mezzotinting. Blake, p. 101; Wellcome II, 399.
COURT DE GEBELIN, Antoine. Histoire naturelle de la parole, ou précis de l'origine du langage & de la grammaire universelle. Extrait du monde primitive . Paris, for the author, 1776. 8°. Engraved frontispiece, folding engraved table and one folding mezzotint plate printed in colour by Gautier d'Agoty (very light, mainly marginal, browning). Contemporary mottled calf (joints and corners skilfully repaired). FIRST EDITION of this extract from the author's nine volume Le Monde primitive , consisting of volumes II and III, on universal grammar and the origin of language and writing. It contains a magnificent colour plate of the vocal organs by Gautier d'Agoty, the founder of the four-plate process of mezzotinting. Blake, p. 101; Wellcome II, 399. With three other works, a first edition of Erasmus Middleton's (and others) The New Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; or an universal system of useful knowledge (London, 1778, 2 vols. in one), a first edition of William Robertson's Phraseologia generalis. A Full, Large and General Phrase Book; comprehending, whatsoever is necessary and most usefull, in all other phraseological books, (hitherto, here, published;) and methodologically digested (Cambridge,1681), and the first French translation of Bonifacio Sotos Ochando's Projet d'une langue universelle (Paris, 1855). (4)
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