gallaudet rev (3 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Fair. Presumed first edition. 16mo. 228 p. Illustrated with woodcut engravings. Gallaudet was the principle of the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, the oldest such school in the United States. His son Edward Miner Gallaudet, co-founded the first college for deaf students, Gallaudet University. This little book includes an interesting mix of natural history, scientific, and theological discussions, written for young people. Includes an engraving depicting the sign language alphabet. Boards worn and corners trimmed; leather spine split. Last 20 pages loose, and last several pages missing (was originally 231 pages). Fair.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition. Contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards. Leather covering of spine lacking but paper facing present over spine. Contents from beginning to about halfway through the book with stain on right half of page, first conspicuous and gradually fading away. Many illustrations. The book has been neatly but unprofessionally partly hand-colored by an early reader, mainly in red, yellow, and green-blue. Sometimes the result is good, sometimes incongruous with the subject (e.g., an elephant with a red face and yellow trunk), but it adds to the book's "centeredness" to its period. Most importantly, there are illustrations of the hand-signs for the letters of the alphabet and the word "and." (These have not been colored.) Gallaudet's system of signs became the basis of American Sign Language; he is described on the title page as "Late Principal to the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb." His son founded Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C.

Hardcover. Zustand: poor. 12mo. 198pp. Blind-stamped black cloth with gold decoration on spine. Some age wear to binding. Includes the books Samuel and Ruth. Each section with frontispiece. Sporadic foxing and water staining throughout. Fair to poor condition.