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BONET, Juan Pablo (1579-1633). Reduction de la letra, y arte para ensear a ablar los mudos. Madrid: Francisco Abarca de Angulo, 1620.
4o (188 x 132 mm). Collation: -4 14 A-Z4 Aa-Qq4 s2. 169 leaves (of 170, without ?blank). Engraved title by Diego de Astor dated 1619, 8 engraved plates showing the alphabet in sign language, folding engraved table of Greek ligatures and abbreviations. (Title laid down and with lower and fore-margins extended, 2 small holes to 1 affecting 1 letter, 3 plates with marginal repairs and small marginal tears, dampstaining to first 50 leaves, occasional minor staining elsewhere.) 19th-century tree calf, edges stained yellow. Provenance: effaced inscription dated 1676; Stanislao Rodriguez (book label).
RARE FIRST EDITION of the first book on the teaching of language and literacy to deaf-mutes. Bonet advocated the necessity of reducing language to its phonetic units in order to teach the deaf to speak, and he developed his own system of finger-spelling, illustrated in the engraved plates. His ideas probably derived from the teachings of the Benedictine monk Pedro Ponce de Lon (1510-1584), a famous teacher of the deaf of whom no written works survive. Garrison-Morton 3345; NLM/Krivatsy 1501; Norman 262.
4o (188 x 132 mm). Collation: -4 14 A-Z4 Aa-Qq4 s2. 169 leaves (of 170, without ?blank). Engraved title by Diego de Astor dated 1619, 8 engraved plates showing the alphabet in sign language, folding engraved table of Greek ligatures and abbreviations. (Title laid down and with lower and fore-margins extended, 2 small holes to 1 affecting 1 letter, 3 plates with marginal repairs and small marginal tears, dampstaining to first 50 leaves, occasional minor staining elsewhere.) 19th-century tree calf, edges stained yellow. Provenance: effaced inscription dated 1676; Stanislao Rodriguez (book label).
RARE FIRST EDITION of the first book on the teaching of language and literacy to deaf-mutes. Bonet advocated the necessity of reducing language to its phonetic units in order to teach the deaf to speak, and he developed his own system of finger-spelling, illustrated in the engraved plates. His ideas probably derived from the teachings of the Benedictine monk Pedro Ponce de Lon (1510-1584), a famous teacher of the deaf of whom no written works survive. Garrison-Morton 3345; NLM/Krivatsy 1501; Norman 262.