Foucault Therese Adele Husson (6 results)

Condition: Gut. 1st. ed. gr. 8°. 343 S. Hardcover, marmorierter Einband, geringe Gebr.spuren, S. 275-278 lose, gutes Ex. Sprache: Französisch, avec IV Figures en Taille Douce. -------- Thérèse-Adèle Foucault (1803-1831). Born into an upper-middle-class family in 1803, Thérèse-Adèle Husson was a French writer in the post-Revolutionary period. At the age of nine months, she became blind as a result of smallpox. She wrote more than a dozen children's novels. She also wrote an autobiography, dictated to two different writers, which was sent to the director of the Quinze-Vingts Hospital in 1825. This autobiography was later discovered by Zina Weygand in the hospital's archives, and with the assistance of Catherine Kudlick, Weygand translated the work and published it as Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France. The book is known for being the first French-language book by a blind person about blindness. Husson died in 1831 following severe burns received when her apartment caught on fire.…

Suivie de l'Orpheline de distinction - Frontispice gravé, deux gravures hors texte - Troisième édition - Reliure cuir d'époque, plats encadrés de guirlandes, dos lisse orné - Reliure légèrement frottée, quelques rousseurs éparses 334 pages, 17,5cm, in-12, relié. Bon état.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Ex-bib. Bords et coins émoussés, pages froissées, taches brunes à cause de l'eau. French.

Condition: Used: Acceptable. Reliure usée, intérieur correct malgré quelques taches.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1828 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 395 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 395.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 394.