Wild Boy of Aveyron.- Itard (Jean Marc Gaspard) De L'Education d'un Homme Savage, ou Des premiers développemens physiques et moraux du jeune sauvage de l'Aveyron, first edition, half-title with ink inscription to head, engraved portrait frontispiece, title signed on verso by author and publisher, some very minor foxing, armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort to pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, upper joint cracked but holding firm, some chipping and surface-wear to spine, rubbing to extremities, [Garrison-Morton 4969.1; Norman 1144], 8vo, Paris, chez Goujon fils, 1801.

⁂ First edition of this important contribution to pedagogy and in particular the teaching of the developmentally delayed.

Victor of Aveyron was first discovered in 1797, living ferally in the woods in the Tarn region of Southern France. He was captured but repeatedly escaped and was eventually brought for study at National Institute of the Deaf in Paris where he was adopted by Itard who set about designing new systems of teaching in order to study and educate the boy. See also next lot.