Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CRIME.) Byrnes, Thomas. Professional Criminals of America. 36 heliotype plates containing 204 portraits. [12], 433 pages. 4to, modern cloth, worn; minor dampstaining to rear leaves, minor edge wear, final leaf chipped and laid down. New York, [1886]

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Biographies and photographs of 204 New York City burglars, pickpockets, confidence men, forgers, and sneak thieves, compiled by the city's chief detective. Criminals included a section of 18 women, numerous Irish Americans and Jewish Americans, and disgraced former South Carolina governor Franklin J. Moses (pictured).