| Corporate Author |
Maggs Bros |
| Title |
The art of writing, 2800 B.C. to 1930 A.D. : illustrated in a collection of original documents written on vellum, paper, papyrus, silk, linen, bamboo, or inscribed on clay, marble, steatite, jasper, haematite, matrix of emerald and chalcedony : exhibiting forty styles of scripts in the languages of Europe, Asia and Africa |
| Publisher |
London : Maggs Bros., [1930] |
| Physical desc. |
510 p. ; illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Note |
At head of cover title: Catalogue five hundred and forty-two |
| Annotated at page 24, cat. 22 (Nebuchadnezzar II, Babylonian clay cylinder, 604-561 BCE): 'Sold'. |
| At page 500. cat. 282: History of the origin and distinguishing marks of the different castes of India, compiled by Col. J. Skinner (India, c.1830)/ |
| Subject |
Rare books -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, European -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Painting, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Painting -- India -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Greek -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Latin -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian -- Catalogs |
| Cuneiform tablets -- Catalogs |
