Diringer, David.

L'Alfabeto nella storia della civilta. Con preliminari di Guido Mazzoni

Firenze [Florence]: S. A. G. Barbera Editore, 1937. First edition (first in English appeared in the 1940s); 8vo, pp. lxvii, [1], 800; 5 folding plates plus illustrations and charts throughout text; original white paper-covered boards lettered in black, lightly smudged and soiled with minor wear to extremities, the hinges just barely beginning to crack, but all sturdy and generally very good. The earliest appearance of linguist Diringer's masterwork, known as The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind in its later, English versions. Item #28536

Price: $100.00