[SCIENCES] E.M. ITARD - Rapport fait à son excellence le ministre le ministre de l'intérieur sur les nouveaux développements et l'état actuel du sauvage de l'Aveyron. Published in Paris by the imprimerie impériale, 1807 - First edition of this very rare pamphlet on the Aveyron savage, in which the author notes with regret the child's inability to develop the faculty of language, after prolonged isolation from human contact, and deems the fact irreversible. Paperback in contemporary dust jacket, in fair condition, with tears and tears to cover, interior with slightly off-set but well-preserved quires. In-8, 85pp.

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