Standard set of letters present in some written languages

Reduction de las letras, y arte para enseñar a ablar los mudos / Por Juan Pablo Bonet.

Johann Romberch, Congestorium artificiose...

Two circular charts showing the configuration of the stars with the Hebrew alphabet. Engraving.

2 volumes : illustrations, plates, diagrams ; 30 cm

Die heilige Urschrift der menschheit : symbolgeschichtliche unter suchungen diesseits und jenseits des Nordatlantik / [Herman Wirth Roeper Bosch].

Pantographia  containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world; together with an English explanation of the peculiar force or power of each letter: to which are added, specimens of all well-authenticated oral languages; Forming A Comprehensive Digest Of Phonology. By Edmund Fry, Letter-Founder, Type-Street.

The world's writing systems / edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright.

3 unnumbered leaves, ix, 126 pages, 1 leaf, III plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; (8vo)

Conjectural observations on the origin and progress of alphabetic writing / [Anon].

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Die heilige Urschrift der menschheit : symbolgeschichtliche unter suchungen diesseits und jenseits des Nordatlantik / [Herman Wirth Roeper Bosch].

The world's writing systems / edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright.

Johann Romberch, Congestorium artificiose...

Conjectural observations on the origin and progress of alphabetic writing / [Anon].

Alphabet

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Die heilige Urschrift der menschheit : symbolgeschichtliche unter suchungen diesseits und jenseits des Nordatlantik / [Herman Wirth Roeper Bosch].

The world's writing systems / edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright.

Johann Romberch, Congestorium artificiose...

Conjectural observations on the origin and progress of alphabetic writing / [Anon].

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