"La Rochelle - Jacob Rodrigues Pereire First Teacher Of Deaf-mutes In France. 1882."
LA ROCHELLE (Ernest) - Jacob Rodrigues Pereire first teacher of deaf-mutes in France, his life and work. Paris, Printing Paul Dupont, 1882; in-8, a portrait of the author and 576 pp., brown half-calf binding, spine decorated with 5 bands, marbled head. Jacob Rodrigue Pereire born in 1715 and died in 1780 is a scholar in France and one of the precursors of the education of the deaf and speech therapy. Recognized scholar and polyglot, he also took political action to defend the rights of the community of “so-called Portuguese Jews”. 
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