Beschreibung:

Deaf and dumb.- Dalgarno (George) Didascalocophus, or The Deaf and Dumb Mans Tutor, to which is added a discourse on the nature and number of double consonants, engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre to the title-page, full-page woodcut illustration to [A6] verso (a little soiled), light spotting to title, [Wellcome II p.427; Wing D129], Oxford, at the Theatre, 1680 bound with Amman (Johann Conrad) Surdus loquens, seu methodus qua, qui surdus natus est, loqui discere possit.., lacking final blank, woodcut device to title, woodcut initials, some staining to title, [G&M 3352], Amsterdam: Henricum Wetstenium, 1692, together 2 works in 1 vol., the odd spot, ink notes in a later hand, 18th century half calf, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo. ⁂ A charming pair of early works on the instruction of deaf mutes, both scarce. The work by Dalgarno, a schoolteacher in Oxford who knew and collaborated with John Wilkins and Samuel Hartlib, proposes a new linguistic system for use by deaf mutes that is still in use in the United States.