Analytic orthography: an investigation of the sounds of the voice, and their alphabetic notation; including the mechanism of speech, and its bearing upon etymology

by S. S. Haldeman

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Philadelphia, London, Paris, Berlin: J. B. Lippincott et al. , 1860. 4to, pp. viii, 5 -148; addenda slip tipped in, original brown cloth, gilt title on cover, boards sunned, very good and sound. Ex-library, with label on upper pastedown and spine. Haldeman's sense of hearing was so acute that he could differentiate the sounds emitted by insects. He studied exhaustively the American Indian dialects, becoming a recognized authority on the subject, and he also

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