[Linguistics] (Barrois, J.) Dactylologie et language primitif restitués d'après les monuments

Paris, printed by Firmin Didot Frères, 1850, (8),360,35 p., w. 61 plates (of which 1 fold. and 2 col.), contemp. hcl., 4to. First free endpaper, htitle and covers loose. Lacks spine, bookblock splitting on spine.

Rare. Brunet I, 668: Caillet I, 770. Barrois was a bookdealer in Paris. Extensive linguistic and semiotic study, starting from primitive and Old Testamental languages, with etymology, phonology and explaining the roots of letters and words from positions of the fingers and hand. Also dealing w. hieroglyphs, Hebrew, cuneiform etc.