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LA CHAPELLE, Jean Baptiste de (ca. 1710–92). LE VENTRILOQUE, OU L’ENGASTRIMYTHE… London, De l’Etanville and Paris: Widow Duchesne, 1772. Two volumes continuously paginated, full mottled calf, well-worn and chipped spines tooled and lettered in gilt. Title ornaments, head-pieces and typographic ornaments. 12mo. Rounded corners. Rebacked. Text generally clean and bright; very good. See Fechner pp. 310.
An early and important French work on ventriloquism, widely regarded as the first published work to treat the subject and including stories of its use and descriptions of technique.