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Histoire Naturelle de la Parole, a l'usage des jeunes gens ... Avec un discours prliminaire, et des notes, par M. le Comte Lanjuinais ... Avec trois Planches, dont une augmente par M. REMUSAT, Professeur de Chinois au Collge de France.
Paris [& Bruxelles], Plancher, Emymery & Delaunay, [Lecharlier Libraire], 1816. [iv], 399, [i, blank] pp. 8vo (12,5 x 20,5 cm.). Recent half maroon morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt lettered on black morocco labels, marbled boards. With an nice allegorical frontispiece (after Marillier and Romanet), and 3 plates of which one folding (2 after Miller, and the folding one after Gautier d'Agoty on the anatomy of the organs and muscles of speech), all LITHOGRAPHED (probably by Engelmann), and slightly reduced and/or modified after the originals of the 1776 edition.
An incunabula of French lithography, and far less common than the first edition of 1776 in which the illustrations are mezzotints. The plate by Gautier d'Agoty (one of his last), with detailed explanation by surgeon Desault (1744-1795), is considered a masterpiece. Choulant-Frank p. 270-71; Caillet 2664.
