Maimieux - Pasigraphie - 1797

[MAIMIEUX (Chevalier Joseph de)], Pasigraphy, or The First Elements of the New Art-Science of writing and printing in one language in such a way that it can be read and heard in every other language without translation; Invented and written by J.*** de M***, former Major of German infantry. First edition, original as the edition in the German language. Paris, At the Bureau of Pasigraphy, 1797.

In-4, 26x21 cm. [2] ff., 66-63 pp.
As it appeared in its waiting binding, worn, with the title calligraphed. Damp-stains.

Original edition. Without the author's portrait in the frontispiece mentioned on the verso of the title page (also absent in the BnF edition).