LAUNAY (Pierre PY-POULAIN de). Method for learning... Lot 1308
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[LAUNAY (Pierre PY-POULAIN de). Method for learning to read French & Latin, by a system so easy & so natural that one makes more progress in three months than in three years, by the ordinary and ancient method [...] Useful work mainly for foreigners who want to speak & write this language correctly, without being obliged to make a long study [...] Paris, Mérigot et Robinot, 1742.
In-12 brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Signature of the author on verso of the title.
Rubbed, leather missing on one spine box, corners dulled, endpapers missing. Tear without missing a leaf.
"new edition of the 'Méthode du sieur Pierre Py-Poulain DE LAUNAY, ou l'art d'apprendre à lire...', first published in 1719, in-12. The new editor says he has reformed and perfected his father's work, in accordance with the observations of the abbot Goujet, in his 'Bibliothèque françoise'. This work is rare. M. Ambr.-F. Didot ('Observations sur l'orthographe française,' 2nd ed., 1868, p. 265) says he has not yet been able to see it." Barbier III, 294. Rare.
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