L'ÉPÉE (Charles-Michel, abbé de).

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L'ÉPÉE (Charles-Michel, abbé de).
L'Art d'enseigner à parler aux sourds-muets de naissance Paris, Dentu, 1820. In-8, cherry half calf, red morocco paper boards, gilt roulette, smooth spine decorated, marbled edges (period binding). New edition of this text by the abbé de L'Épée (1712-1789), founder of the first free and public school open to all deaf-mutes. Originally published in La Véritable manière d'instruire les sourds-muets de naissance (1784), it is here enlarged with explanatory notes and a foreword by Abbé Sicard, a disciple of the author, and preceded by a historical eulogy of Abbé de L'Épée by Auguste Bébian, academician and censor of the studies of the Royal Institution of the Deaf. A pleasant copy, elegantly bound, with a consignment from Bébian to a man named Barbet. It includes, pasted on the back of the title, a manual Alphabet of the deaf-mutes engraved by Boclet. The copy of the university library of Lausanne contains a portrait of the abbé de L'Épée lithographed by Engelmann after Le Cerf, not present in this copy.
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