Lisboa: Casa Portugueza, 1888. First edition. 8vo, 240 pp., bound in crimson calf-backed marbled boards, gilt titles. Text in Portuguese. An early work of Portuguese criminology by the noted poet and criminologist, written while he was deputy director of the Central Jail of Lisbon, an institution of which he would... More
Lisboa: Livraria Guimaraes, 1903. First edition. 8vo, 270 pp, rebound at a contemporary or early date in marbled boards backed in red leatherette titled and banded in gilt. Original wraps not present. Illustrated with 13 photographs and drawings. Text in Portuguese. Previous owner's early and tasteful typographic bookplate to fep... More
Lyon and Paris: A. Rey and A. Maloine & Fils, 1920. First edition. 8vo, 166 pp, printed wraps. Text in French. Illustrated with 47 drawings, photographs, and tables in the text. The first edition of this continuation of the influential criminologists anthropometric studies of the prisoners at La Maison Centrale... More