[Rarebooks] FS: 17th c. Hebraica/Science book on lip reading for deaf mutes.

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Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van. ALPHABETI VERE NATURALIS HEBRAICI
BEVISSIMA DELINEATIO. Quae Simul Methodum Suppeditat, Juxta Quam Qui
Surdi Nati Sunt Sic Informari Possunt, ut Non Alios Saltem Loquentes
Intelligant, Sed & Ipsi ad Sermonis Usum Perveniant. In Lucem Edita.
Sulzbach: Typis Abrahami Lichtenthaleri. 1667. 12mo. (34),178pp. Copper
engraved frontispiece plus 36 copper engraved plates at back. Cont.
vellum, very lightly soiled. A beautiful fine copy.	$4,500.00 (trade 
discount
allowed)
Helmont (1618-1699) was the son of natural philosopher Johannes
Helmont, and a physician in his own right. This work, on the Hebrew
language and the specific sounds of each Hebrew letter, is also an
early attempt to teach lip reading to deaf mutes by fancifully relating
the positions of the lips, tongue, etc. to the shapes of the letters in
the Hebrew alphabet (which he believed was the original language of
mankind).

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