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[Offprint.] Upon a Method of Teaching Language to a Very Young Congenitally Deaf Child. By Alexander Graham Bell, Ph.D.

Author: 
Alexander Graham Bell, Ph.D. [The American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb]
Publication details: 
Third edition. Extracted, by permission, from the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, April, 1883, vol. xxviii, pp.124-139. Washington, D. C. Gibson Brothers, Printers. 1886.
£250.00

16pp., 8vo. Including full-page facsimile 'Specimen of Impromptu Conversation' and of 'the plan, recommended by George Dalgarno, of writing the alphabet upon a glove'. In grey card wraps. In good condition, on aged paper, with label and stamp of the Science & Art Department of the Educational Library on the front cover. In tasteful modern grey paper wraps with white printed label on front. No copies of this third edition on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat (but a total of fourteen copies of the first edition).

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[Offprint.] Fallacies concerning the deaf, and the Influence of these Fallacies in preventing the Amelioration of their Condition. [...] With remarks by Dr. E. M. Gallaudet and Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard.

Author: 
Alexander Graham Bell; Dr. E. M. Gallaudet; Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard [The Philosophical Society of Washington; The American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb]
Publication details: 
An Address delivered before the Philosophical Society of Washington, October 27, 1883. Reprinted from the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb for January, 1884. Washington D.C. Gibson Brothers, Printers. 1884.
£350.00

39pp., 8vo. Front cover of printed wraps present, with 'With the Author's Compliments' printed in top left-hand corner. In fair condition, lightly-aged, with shelfmarks, label and stamp of the Science & Art Department of the Education Library. In tasteful modern quarter-bound boards of light and dark grey paper, with white printed label on front.

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[Printed pamphlet in series 'Reprints of Useful Knowledge, No. 30.'] On the Mode of Teaching the Surd, or Deaf and Consequently Dumb to Speak.

Author: 
William Thornton, M.D. [Volta Bureau, for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge relating to the Deaf, Washington City, U.S.A.; Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia]
Publication details: 
Printing Department, Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Penn. 1904. [Reprinted from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, (Philadelphia), 1793, Vol. III, pp. 262-319.]
£40.00

11pp., 12mo. With photographic reproduction of a painted portrait of Thornton on a loosely-inserted leaf of shiny art paper. Stapled into light-blue printed wraps. In good condition, lightly-aged, with rusted staples. Shelfmark, labels and stamp of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. Uncommon.

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[Printed pamphlet.] The Combined System. Approved by Friends of the Orally Taught.

Author: 
W. H. Brownson, Special Committee School for the Deaf; E. M. Gallaudet, Gallaudet College, Washington, D.C.]
Publication details: 
Washington, D.C. January, 1896.
£120.00

12pp., 12mo. Stapled in grey printed wraps. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with punch-hole at upper spine. With shelfmarks, stamps and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. Signature of the eminent 'E. M. Gallaudet' beneath title on front cover. Scarce: two copies listed on OCLC WorldCat, and none on COPAC.

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[Printed item.] The Story of the Rise of the Oral Method in America as told in the Writings of the late Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard.

Author: 
Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard [Press of W. F. Roberts, Washington, D.C.]
Publication details: 
Washington, D.C. Press of W. F. Roberts. 1898.
£50.00

49pp., small 4to. Frontispiece photographic portrait with facsimile signature of 'Gardinger Greene Hubbard'. Stitched, in grey printed wraps. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. With labels and shelfmarks of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. A tasteful production by Roberts. Well represented on COPAC and OCLC WorldCat, but uncommon on the market.

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[Pamphlet] "The Proper Adjustment of Methods in the Education of the Deaf" [Read at the World's Congress of Instructors of the Deaf, Chicago, 1893]

Author: 
Edward M. Gallaudet, President of the National Deaf-Mute College
Publication details: 
[1893]
£120.00

Not bound, 8pp, 8vo, label of Education Department. Reference Library on back page, punch-hole top left, stamps on front, top edges chipped, edges grubby, text clear and complete. Two copies recorded on WorldCat (RIT Library and Calgary).

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[Pamphlet] "Values in the Education of the Deaf" [Read at the Seventh Conference of Principals and Superintendents of American Institutions for the Education of he Dear, held at Colorado Springs, Colo., August 7-11, 1892

Author: 
Edward M. Gallaudet, President of the National Deaf-Mute College
Publication details: 
Colorado Springs, Colo., The Index Print, 1893.
£120.00

Original brown paper wraps, 20pp, 8vo, label of Education Department. Reference Library on back page, punch-hole top left, stamps on front, good condition, text clear and complete. Two copies recorded on WorldCat (Edinburgh Unoiv. and Harvard).

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