An Examination of The Ancient Orthography of the Jews, and of the Original State of the Text of the Hebrew Bible (2 vols)

London: Whittaker and Co, 1835. Presumed First Edition. Cloth Boards, Gilt Titles Spin. Very Good/No Dustjacket. Part I (Vol 1, 1835): Part the First, Containing an Inquiry into the Origin of Alphebetic Writing; with Which is Incorporated an Essay on the Egyptian Hieroglyphs. x + 378 + 3 foldout charts; Part II: (Vol 3, 1841): Part the Second, on the Propogation of Alphabets and Other Phonetic Systems Throughgout Eastern Asia; and on the Vast Inferiority of Ideagraphic Writing, as Displayed in Its effects Upon Human Learning. ix + 466. Original green cloth over boards, soiled, corners worn, spines tad sunned, contents clean, firmly bound. Scarce.