Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 222

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
L'ÉPÉE, CHARLES-MICHEL DE, Abbé. The Method of Educating the Deaf and Dumb; Confirmed from Long Experience. Folding leaf with 2 letterpress tables. [8], xxx, [4], 230 pages, including half-title. 12mo, 171x104 mm, modern 1/4 leather, spine faded; half-title toned, scattered small stains, heavy foxing on pages 171-80, booksellers' catalogue cuttings mounted on front pastedown. Early 19th-century inscriptions of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh on title and page 1. London: George Cooke for T. Cadell et al., 1801

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first edition in english of the author's 1776 Institution des Sourds et Muets, an important book on the education of the deaf by an early proponent of sign language. Garrison-Morton 3558; Heirs of Hippocrates 920.