211- [PHOTOGRAPHIES] - Institution nationale des jeunes aveugles. Saint-Cloud, Imprimerie de Madame veuve Eugène Belin, s.d. (1876), oblong in-16 (12 x 17 cm), [3] ff. n. chet 25 small photographic prints (5,5 x 9 cm) by Pierre Petit, pasted on strong paper, captioned and mounted on tabs, modest chagrin cloth, mute spine (publisher's binding). Rare and charming photographic album intended to publicize the educational activities of the Institution nationale des jeunes aveugles (now INJA, National Institute for the Young Blind), founded in 1786 by Valentin Haüy and still in operation at 56, boulevard des Invalides. Lack of cloth at one of the spines. Copy offered to Eugène de Thiac (1806-1892), secretary of the Consultative Commission of the institution, with a letter from the director Romand dated April 10, 1876 on the first endpapers.