GUILLIÉ (Sébastien). Essay on the instruction... - Lot 4 - Osenat

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GUILLIÉ (Sébastien). Essay on the instruction... - Lot 4 - Osenat
GUILLIÉ (Sébastien). Essay on the instruction of the blind, or analytical exposition of the procedures used to instruct them. In Paris, printed by the blind [printed by J.-L. Chanson, printer of the Institution], 1817. In-8, 224 [of which the first 2 are blank] pp. in long-grained red morocco, smooth spine with fleur-de-lis in the center of the boards, gilt frame of palmettes and fleur-de-lis on the boards with gilt coat of arms in the center, filleted edges, gilt roulette with wheat ears, green paper lining, gilt edges; rare freckles (binding of binding). ORIGINAL EDITION, copy printed on strong vellum. 22 ENGRAVED PLATES ON COPPER OUT OF TEXT by Azélie Hubert after Julie Ribault : either a frontispiece and 21 representations of blind people at work. With some woodcuts : alphabets, playing cards. playing cards. OPHTALMOLOGIST SÉBASTIEN GUILLIÉ (1780-1866) served in Spain under the Empire as a military as a military doctor, and was appointed chief physician of the Quinze-Vingts during the First Restoration. He separated the young blind from the incurable, and in 1814 he took over the direction of the Institution for the Young Blind, founding an "ocular" clinic. He published several medical works, in particular on ophthalmic pathologies, on the instruction to be given to the blind, and founded with several doctors of which Guillaume Dupuytren the Ophthalmologic Library. He also made a fortune with the invention and marketing of an anti-glare drug. PRESENT EXEMPLAIR WITH THE ARMS OF THE DUCHESS OF ANGOULÊME OF WHICH SÉBASTIEN GUILLIÉ WAS THE ATTITLED OCULIST from 1814 (iron no. 3 of OHR plate no. 2553).
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