£150 - £250
ASTLE, THOMAS
THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF WRITING, AS WELL HIEROGLYPHIC AS ELEMENTARY
London, T Bensley for J White, 1803. Second (and best) edition, 4to, portrait frontispiece + 32 engraved plates of which 8 have hand-colouring, occasional light spotting/browning but good, in the original grey boards with paper label to spine, worn, spine with vertical crack, upper board and end-paper detached
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