Principes d'institution, ou de la manière d'élever les enfans des deux sexes par rapport au corps, à l'esprit et au coeur
Paris: Veuve Desaint, 1774. First and apparently only edition of a comprehensive study of education of both boys and girls. This work studies the food and clothing of students, exercises, diseases, moral education, study habits, training for specific occupations, education and marriage, happiness, etc. A fine copy. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label, blue marbled edges. Twelvemo. xvi, 464 pp. Item #16517
Little is known about the Abbé Le More. He is the author of one other work that we could find, Le maître d’histoire, ou Chronologie élémentaire, historique et raisonée des principales histoires…(1776).
OCLC lists copies at Harvard, Pennsylvania, Stanford, and the United States Military Academy in New York.
Price: $750.00