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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/creatorCraig, Francis Marion.
Other author/creatorBallard, James.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew 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
Subject(s)
Series Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteScanned copy defective: plate J wanting.
Local noteArts and Literature; Science.
Local note2011AC17300.
Local noteScanned copy defective: plate J wanting.
Local noteArts and Literature; Science.
Local note2011AC17300.
General noteTwo columns to the page.
General notePosthumous work edited by James Ballard; the introduction (p. [5]-66) was written partly from the author's notes by Francis Marion Craig.
General noteSection of plates at end is numbered: 1-21, A-T, [3] unnumbered.
General noteReproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 28134.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2011. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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