Report of the Committee Appointed by the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania to Translate the Inscription on the Rosetta Stone
[Philadelphia]: [c. 1859]. Second Edition. Hardcover. (Philadelphia: 1859). 2nd ed, illustrations, 152, [8]p. plus 24p. "Catalogue of members of the Philomathean Society" followed by a tipped-in slip with the copyright data. Original green cloth. Chipping at ends of backstrip. Front cover almost entirely detached (and may be entirely detached when purchased). Unnumbered pages 3-6 pulled at top with resultant bumping and wear along bottom edge of those two leaves. A couple other leaves are detached. Charles R. Hale translated the Greek and demotic text. Samuel Huntington Jones wrote an essay about Ptolemy Epiphanes. Henry Morton handled hieroglyphic inscriptions and the pictorial decorations. The Report by these three undergraduates as the Committee is signed in ink on page [6]p. by Hale but not the other two -- most copies are unsigned, some are signed by all three members. The first edition (400 copies) was published in December, 1858. 600 copies were produced for the Second Edition which could be considered a new work because almost all stones for the first edition had been ground down and most pages had to be redrawn. Good. Item #90211
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