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1. The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico : its middle state in the Cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis ... / by Henry Noel Humphreys ... ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

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Creator:: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 178 p., 28 [i.e. 30] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts