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SICARD (Roch-Ambroise Cucurron, dit l'abbé).... - Lot 87 - Rossini
SICARD (Roch-Ambroise Cucurron, dit l'abbé). Théorie des signes pour l'instruction des sourds-muets. Paris, À l'Imprimerie de l'Institution des Sourds-Muets, sous la Direction d'Ange Clo, 1808. 2 large volumes in-8, paperback, untrimmed, dust jacket.
First edition, illustrated with a fold-out plate showing the sign alphabet.
This important treatise marks the culmination of the work of Abbé de L'Épée, whose disciple and successor at the Institut des sourds-muets de Paris was Sicard (1742-1822). The second volume ends with a Notice sur l'enfance de Massieu, a deaf-mute by birth and Sicard's pupil.
Copy as issued, stapled and untrimmed.
Ink stain on verso of faux-title and at top of title of volume II, the top edge of the latter being cut away (without affecting the text). Paper missing from spine.
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