May 18, 2006 - Sale 2080

Sale 2080 - Lot 346

Price Realized: $ 805
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CRIME.) Professional Criminals of America. By Thomas Byrnes, Inspector of Police, New York City. Handsomely illustrated with 204 heliotype reproductions on 34 plates. 4to, 1/4 gilt-lettered morocco, corners worn, rear cover scratched; contents clean. first edition. New York: Cassell & Company, 1886

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Artfully illustrated with sepia heliotypes of captured criminals, this classic of crimonology was written and compiled by New York's chief of detectives, and includes a chapter entitled "Why Thieves are Photographed."