1856 Disabilities, autobiography deaf mute, international traveller, illustrated, privately printed

E. Heinrich [i.e. Eugène Henry]: 

Notizen und Erinnerungen aus dem Leben. Allen seinen Freunden gewidmet. [Notes and Memories from my Life. Dedicated to all of his Friends.]

29.5 cm. Freiburg in Baden, printed by F.X. Wangler, 1856.

32 pages. Illustrated with two lithographs. Original printed wrappers with small paper numeric label..

No copy of this particular edition (with the author's name in French) in OCLC.

Eugène Henry notes in his first sentence that he was at the time 32 years old, so he must have been born in 1824. He also states that he was born to poor parents in a village in the departement Côte d'Azur (France). On pages 7 and 8, he explains he was not born deaf and dumb, and how he lost his ear and speech as a child. Later, we learn more about his education, his travels and that he earned his living from working as a pedlar, or as a huckster for cutlery and engravings., and later as a colporteur. 

One of the chapters is entitled "Mein Glückstraum auf einem Baum in Amerika" [My Dream of Happiness on a Tree in America (where he stayed the night)], and the last (very short) one "Ich bin Vorhabens ganz Amerika zu durchreisen" [I'm up to perambulate the whole American continent]. 

OCLC lists several other German editions with varying titles, as well as one French edition (being the very first), all with the author's original French name, Eugène Henry. Only two libraries outside of Switzerland hold any of these editions (Freiburg and Manchester).

Wrappers dusty. Light spotting.

Reference: See catalogue “Otherness” by Bookseller Daniela Kromp