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Published 1962

Writing /

: 261 pages : illustrations, plates, 3 maps, facsims, tables ; 21 cm. : Biography : pages 179-184.

Diringer, David, 1900-1975

Reading the past : ancient writing from cuneiform to the alphabet /

: 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

The first writing : script invention as history and process /

: xvii, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [354]-394) and index. : 0521838614

Houston, Stephen D.

L'aventure de l'alphabet : les écritures cursives et linéaires du Proche-Orient et d'Europe du sud-est à l'Age du bronze /

: 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : 2705337164

La Marle, Hubert

Der Ursprung des Alphabets : die neuentdeckte Sinaischrift ; Zwei Abhandlungen zur Entstehungsgeschichte unserer Schrift /

: Aus den "Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 1916/1917" neu abgedruckt. : 475 pages ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references.

Sethe, Kurt, 1869-1934

Published 1957

Extinct languages /

: Translation of : Entzifferung verschollener Schriften und Sprachen. : 182 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Friedrich, Johannes, 1893-1972

Published 1970

Sign, Symbol and Script: an account of man's effort to write /

: 3-613 p.: illus., facsims; 26 : Bibliography: p. 593 : 44000219

Jensen, Hans .

Published 1964

Vom Bilde zum Buchstaben : die Entstehungsgeschichte der Schrift /

: Reprint of the 1939 ed. published by J. Hinrichs, Leipzig. : 83 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical footnotes.

Sethe, Kurt, 1869-1934.

The shape of script : how and why writing systems change /

: xxiii, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781934691427 (alk. paper)

Lost languages : the enigma of the world's undeciphered scripts /

: 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index. : 9780500288160

Robinson, Andrew, 1957-

Published 2008

The disappearance of writing systems : perspectives on literacy and communication /

: xviii, 378 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781845539078

Grammaire comparee des langues bibliques /

: No more published. : 2 volumes in 1 ; 24 cm.

Drival, Evan, 1815-1887

Published 1990

Cadmean letters : the transmission of the alphabet to the Aegean and further west before 1400 B.C. /

: xiii, 156 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-152) and index. : 0931464471

Bernal, Martin

Published 2012

Schriftentwicklung im Kulturkontakt : das erste Jahrtausend der Alphabetschrift /

: 244 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-240). : 9783868930870 (hd.bd.)

Morenz, Ludwig D.

Politics and script : aspects of authority and freedom in the development of Graeco-Latin script from the sixth century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D. /

: Lectures delivered in 1957, reworked and elaborated for publication : [5], 361 pages : illustrations, Facsimiles ; 28 cm. : Bibligraphy : pages 341-345. : 0198181469

Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967

Published 2010

Visible language : inventions of writing in the ancient Middle East and beyond /

: Exhibition catalog held at the Oriental Institute of Chicago. : 240 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781885923769

Scripts /

: 178 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. : مكرر.

Berggren, Olaf

Before writing /

: volume 1 has foreword by William W. Hallo. : volume<1> : illustrations ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 0292707835 (volume 1 : alk. paper)

Schmandt-Besserat, Denise

Published 1982

Forgotten scripts : their ongoing discovery and decipherment /

: Includes indexes. : xxi, 226 pages : ill. ; 22 cm. : Bibliography : pages 211-214. : 046502484X

Gordon, Cyrus H.‪ 1908-2001

The story of decipherment : from Egyptian hieroglyphs to Maya script /

: 232 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps (some color) ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-224) and index. : 050028105X

Pope, Maurice