Lot n° 90
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DU BOIS (Louis). Recherches historiques et physiologiques su - Lot 90
DU BOIS (Louis). Recherches historiques et physiologiques sur la guillotine, et détails sur Sanson : ouvrage rédigé sur des pièces officielles. Paris, France, 1843. Booklet in-8, 36 pages, pink half-percaline, gilt title on spine (19th century binding).
First edition, illustrated with a lithographed plate showing the Project for a beheading machine first proposed by Schmidt.
History of the guillotine, with details of the Sanson family, famous executors during the French Revolution.
Bound at the end is a clipping from the Courrier français, August 25, 1846, containing a feuilleton by Gustave Brunet entitled Une exécution capitale, an account found in the papers of an Englishman.
Spine unstained.
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