Practical cosmophonography : a system of writing and printing all the principal languages with their exact pronunciation, by means of an original universal phonetic alphabet based upon philological principles and representing analogically all the component elements of the human voice as they occur in different tongues and dialects, and applicable to daily use in all the branches of business and learning : illustrated by numerous plates, explanatory of the calligraphic, steno-phonographic and typo-phonographic adaptations of the system : with specimens of the Lord's prayer in one hundred languages : to which is prefixed a general introduction, elucidating the origin and progress of language, writing, stenography, phonography, etc., etc., etc. / by Francis Fauvel-Gouraud.
Author/creator |
Fauvel-Gouraud, Francis |
Other author/creator | Craig, Francis Marion. |
Other author/creator | Ballard, James. |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Publication Info | New York : J.S. Redfield, 1850 [c1849] |
Description | [2], 186, [1] p., [44] leaves of plates : ill., geneal. table ; 23 cm. |
Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
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Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED |
Local note | Scanned copy defective: plate J wanting. |
Local note | Arts and Literature; Science. |
Local note | 2011AC17300. |
Local note | Scanned copy defective: plate J wanting. |
Local note | Arts and Literature; Science. |
Local note | 2011AC17300. |
General note | Two columns to the page. |
General note | Posthumous work edited by James Ballard; the introduction (p. [5]-66) was written partly from the author's notes by Francis Marion Craig. |
General note | Section of plates at end is numbered: 1-21, A-T, [3] unnumbered. |
General note | Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society. |
General note | Sabin no. 28134. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2011. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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