Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving.

Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving, 1748.

Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured line engraving.

Two hands illustrating sign language with Hebrew (?) characters. Engraving by J.W. Michaelis.

Hands showing the alphabet of sign language. Wood engraving.

Abbot de L'Epée, the founder of deaf and dumb education in France, above the French sign language alphabet. Coloured lithograph.

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 24.8 x 17.6 cm

xxi pages, 1 leaf, 54, 136 pages : illustrations ; (4to)

Ancient alphabets and hieroglyphic characters explained; with an account of the Egyptian priests, their classes, initiation, and sacrifices / in the Arabic language by Ahmad bin Abubekr bin Wahshih; and in English by Joseph Hammer.

1 volume<br/>134 [148] pages 8vo. 16 1/2 ? 11 cm. Original calf binding. Ppage 67-81 have been cut out, as well as 2 leaves between page 116 and page 117: some leaves are missing both at the beginning and at the end.

Miscellanea Alchemica XXIII

The French sign language alphabet with ornate border, above it, the Abbé C.M. de l'Epée and the Abbé Sicard. Lithograph.

1 volume<br/>32 leaves (first & last blank). oblank 8vo. 15 1/2 ? 20 cm. Unbound. Lower corner of the first leaf torn away, some margins and corners damaged. Written on rectos only: calligraphic pen-drawn initials and texts, illustrating various styles of writing, alphabets, etc.

Man (alias Flatman), John

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Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving.

Ancient alphabets and hieroglyphic characters explained; with an account of the Egyptian priests, their classes, initiation, and sacrifices / in the Arabic language by Ahmad bin Abubekr bin Wahshih; and in English by Joseph Hammer.

Miscellanea Alchemica XXIII

The French sign language alphabet with ornate border, above it, the Abbé C.M. de l'Epée and the Abbé Sicard. Lithograph.

Man (alias Flatman), John

Alphabets

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Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving.

Ancient alphabets and hieroglyphic characters explained; with an account of the Egyptian priests, their classes, initiation, and sacrifices / in the Arabic language by Ahmad bin Abubekr bin Wahshih; and in English by Joseph Hammer.

Miscellanea Alchemica XXIII

The French sign language alphabet with ornate border, above it, the Abbé C.M. de l'Epée and the Abbé Sicard. Lithograph.

Man (alias Flatman), John

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