L'ÉPÉE (Charles-Michel de). The true way of instructing... Lot 540

[L'ÉPÉE (Charles-Michel de). The true way of instructing the deaf and dumb, confirmed by a long experience, by M. l'abbé ***, teacher of the deaf and dumb of Paris. Paris, Nyon l'aîné, 1784. 3 parts in one vol. in-12, with a folding table hors-texte, fawn basane, smooth spine decorated, red tr. (period binding). Spine darkened, missing at the upper spine. Marginal staining. This is the second edition, recast, of the Institution des sourds et muets, originally published in 1776, and which forms the major book of the abbé de l'Epée (1712-1789), a pioneer in the education of the deaf and dumb not only in France, but throughout Europe.