BULWER JOHN Chirologia whereunto is added Chironomia 164

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BULWER, JOHN. Chirologia; or, The Naturall Language of the Hand . . . whereunto is added, Chironomia; or, The Art of Manuall Rhetoricke. 6 full-page engraved illustrations. [30], 187, [5]; [18], 146, [1] pages, including 2 engraved additional titles and final errata leaf. 8vo, contemporary sheep, heavily worn, with later 19th-century morocco lettering piece; light dampstaining in outer margins at beginning and end, some light marginal soiling, N2 torn in upper margin slightly affecting headline, clean tear in N3. 18th-century armorial bookplate of Fr. Hooper of Trinity College, Cambridge. London: Tho. Harper for R. Whitaker, 1644

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first edition; issue with Harper/Whitaker imprint. One of the earliest works in English on sign language, drawing extensively on Biblical and classical literature to describe and classify the uses of gesture in religious ritual, public oratory, stage performance, etc. Bulwer was a physician who pioneered the education of the deaf in England. Garrison-Morton 3346, 3347; Philip Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection 64; Wing B5462A, B5467.