Author: DIDEROT Denis - Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT ( ) ( editors ) :
Title: Caractères et Alphabets de langues mortes et vivantes, Contenant vingt-cinq Planches. (Extracted from. DIDEROT& D'ALEMBERT - Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers).
Description: .: S.l.s.d. (Paris, 1763-172), in-folio, 395 x 262 mm, 17 pp (text) +(1)(=18)(bl.) + 25 engraved plates (numbered I-XXV), sewn, old blue-grey blind wrapper (discoloured and with some small marginal tears, spine damaged, interior fine, notwithstanding some minor stains as usual with these 18th century imprints). The off-print of the article in the in-folio edition of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert devoted to alphabets.The plates depict alphabets and characters of more than 40 languages, from Assyrian and Hebrew to Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Bengali. Most of the alphabets are printed in columns; capitals, cursive, pronounciation...with an explanatory text for each plate. .

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