Instructions Signaletiques

Alphonse Bertillon

Verlag: Breittkopf & Hartel, Melun, 1893

Beschreibung

Instructions Signaletiques by Alphonse Bertillon. Published by Melun: Imprimerie Administrative in 1893. French language. Size: 6 1/4 x 10 inches. Page number 148 plus 80 plates and three pull out charts. Hardcover. Black leather spine, marbled boards, gilt lettering and details. Marbled end papers. Within 30 photogravure plates, 52 line-drawn plates, two folding tables and a coloured fold out plate 'Tableau des Nuances de L'iris Humain'. Condition: Very Good. The boards are only a little worn; the binding remains tight with no cracks at the hinges. The pages are clean and un-thumbed, though a little tanned at the edges. One pull out chart is a little creased and is darkened and ragged at the leading edge. The pull out showing the iris is damaged in one spot where something has caused two sides of paper to stick together. There is a paste-down ownership label on the first end paper, and a stamp from University College London on the last. Alphonse Bertillon, a Parisian policeman devised a method of measuring, photographing, and cataloging the variants in size, form and colour of the human body such that criminals could be identified and would be less likely to be confused with each other. First published in 1886, this 1893 edition represents the final statement of his technique which became known as Bertillonage or forensic anthropometry. The revolutionary technique was widely taken up; becoming redundant only after the discovery of fingerprinting. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000935

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Instructions Signaletiques

Verlag: Breittkopf & Hartel, Melun

Erscheinungsdatum: 1893

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket