Towards a universal written language.- Maimieux (Joseph de) Pasigraphie, premiers élémens du nouvel art-science d'écrire et d'imprimer en une langue de manière à être lu et entendu dans toute autre langue sans traduction, first edition in French (published simultaneously in German), strip trimmed away from lower margin of final f., some foxing, lightly browned, contemporary marbled wrappers, rare in commerce, small 4to, Paris, 'Au Bureau de la Pasigraphie', 1797. ⁂ Maimieux's proposal for a universal language. The introduction was written by Father Sicard, who later wrote a treatise on the education of the deaf and dumb. 'Although several other schemes of universal language were to appear in the course of the 1790s, none aroused more than a fraction of the interest that greeted the Pasigraphie (1797) of Joseph de Maimieux ... The invention was praised, for example, by Goupil-Préfelne as being of as great importance to humanity as the invention of printing.' (Knowlson, Universal Language Schemes, pp.153-155). A portrait was apparently supplied on request to subscribers (printed note to verso of title) but is not present here.
Towards a universal written language.- Maimieux (Joseph de) Pasigraphie, premiers élémens du nouvel art-science d'écrire et d'imprimer en une langue de manière à être lu et entendu dans toute autre langue sans traduction, first edition in French (published simultaneously in German), strip trimmed away from lower margin of final f., some foxing, lightly browned, contemporary marbled wrappers, rare in commerce, small 4to, Paris, 'Au Bureau de la Pasigraphie', 1797. ⁂ Maimieux's proposal for a universal language. The introduction was written by Father Sicard, who later wrote a treatise on the education of the deaf and dumb. 'Although several other schemes of universal language were to appear in the course of the 1790s, none aroused more than a fraction of the interest that greeted the Pasigraphie (1797) of Joseph de Maimieux ... The invention was praised, for example, by Goupil-Préfelne as being of as great importance to humanity as the invention of printing.' (Knowlson, Universal Language Schemes, pp.153-155). A portrait was apparently supplied on request to subscribers (printed note to verso of title) but is not present here.
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