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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Quarto, softcover, VG in beige wraps. These alphabet charts illustrate the development of the art of writing since its discovery in Egypt and Babylonia and the spread of the Old Phoenician alphabet, the ancestor of all alphabet scripts. Only the last three plates are from after the Christian era. Alphabetic plates of early Sumerian(2500 b.c.), Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic, Thotmes III (1500 b.c.), Ugaritic cuneform (1500 b.c.), ancient Persian, Proto-Sinaitic, and Old Phoenician, north and south semitic, Greek and Latin.…