The Aryan Origin Of The Alphabet
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Sub-titled 'Disclosing the Sumero-Phoenician Parentage of our Letters Ancient & Modern'. With a navy linen cover and gilt lettering, this book is in VGC but has light foxing on and off throughout and on all three edges of the page block. The author, Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell (1854 - 1938), was a British explorer, collector in Tibet, and author. He travelled in India throughout the 1890s (including Sikkim and areas on the borders of Nepal and Tibet) and wrote about the Tibetan Buddhist religious practices he observed there. In his later works he tried to synthesize Western and Near Eastern cultures. In this work he proposes an Aryan (i.e., Indo-European) origin of the alphabet. His point of departure is the presumed Semitic origin of the Alphabet, against which he makes an argument for an actual Aryan origin. Illustrated in the text and with two large fold-out plates (see photos) and Index.
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