Quelques faits remarquables d’infanticide

by Samuel François Louis César Clavel De Brenles

$1,250 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Lausanne: Corbaz, 1825. 8vo. xxxvii, 89 pp. Lithographed plate. Contemporary marbled wrappers. A good copy in genuine original condition. Item #19757 First edition of this compilation of case studies of infanticide. The text begins with a pathological analysis of mothers who kill their children and the laws surrounding the crime in France, followed by seven narrative accounts of infanticide and their court proceedings. The

• Binding: Wrappers

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