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LOMBROSO, Cesare (1836-1909). L’Uomo deliquente. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1876.
8° (223 x 151mm). Half-title, wood-engraved illustrations, lithographic illustration mounted on p.65. (Some contemporary annotations, scattered light spotting and finger soiling, tear to bottom corner of one leaf, ink marks to fly leaf, pencil mark to bottom margin of p.249.) Contemporary leather-backed boards, spine gilt (extremities rubbed and recoloured). Provenance: Prof. Dott. U. Calamida (library label) – ‘Raffaele Per– / giugno 1955’ (title inscription).
FIRST EDITION of Lombroso’s influential study of criminality which ‘has had a lasting effect on penal theory’ (PMM). ‘Lombroso was a leader in the Italian school of criminal anthropology’ who held that the characteristics common to criminals ‘were either inherited or the result of physical degeneration’ (Norman). Norman 1384; PMM 364.
8° (223 x 151mm). Half-title, wood-engraved illustrations, lithographic illustration mounted on p.65. (Some contemporary annotations, scattered light spotting and finger soiling, tear to bottom corner of one leaf, ink marks to fly leaf, pencil mark to bottom margin of p.249.) Contemporary leather-backed boards, spine gilt (extremities rubbed and recoloured). Provenance: Prof. Dott. U. Calamida (library label) – ‘Raffaele Per– / giugno 1955’ (title inscription).
FIRST EDITION of Lombroso’s influential study of criminality which ‘has had a lasting effect on penal theory’ (PMM). ‘Lombroso was a leader in the Italian school of criminal anthropology’ who held that the characteristics common to criminals ‘were either inherited or the result of physical degeneration’ (Norman). Norman 1384; PMM 364.
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