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Essai sur l'éducation des aveugles, ou, Exposé de différens moyens, vérifiés par l'expérience, pour les mettre en état de lire, à l'aide du tact, d'imprimer des livres dans lesquels ils puissent prendre des connoissances de langues, d'histoire, de géographie, de musique, &c., d'exécuter différens travaux relatifs aux métiers, &c. : dédié au Roi / par M. Haüy.
Author
Haüy, Valentin, 1745-1822
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Format
Book
Language
French
Published/Created
A Paris : Imprimé par les enfans-aveugles, sous la direction de M. Clousier, imprimeur du Roi; & se vend, à leur bénéfice, en leur maison d'education, rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Description
vij, [1], 126, 15, [37] p. : forms ; 26 cm.
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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library
26204 Euro 18Q
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Subject(s)
Institution royale des jeunes aveugles (France)
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Blind
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France
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Paris
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Institutional care
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Education
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Early works to 1800
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Printing and writing systems
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Early works to 1800
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Blind
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Books and reading
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Early works to 1800
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Publisher
Institution royale des jeunes aveugles (France)
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Printer
Clousier, Jacques-Gabriel, -1804?
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Notes
The "Essai," p. [1]-111, printed on one side of leaf only with blank sides pasted together, is on embossed paper with disconnected script for use in teaching blind children; according to the Avertissement (p. after p. vij), the work in its entirety except the Essai was printed by blind children.
"Modèles des différents ouvrages d'imprimerie qui peuvent être exécutés facilement par les enfans-aveugles": p. [2-23] of unnumbered sequence; includes forms numbered I-X and printed on one side of leaf only.
Binding note
Cotsen copy: Later brown calf with all edges stained red.
References
Garrison-Morton (4th ed.), 5833
Place name(s)
France Paris.
OCLC
1340470817
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