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AVÉ-LALLEMANT, FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN BENEDICT. Das Deutsche Gaunerthum in seiner social-politischen, literarischen und linguistischen Ausbildung zu seinem heutigen Bestande. Illustrated. 4 volumes in 3. 8vo, modern black buckram; marginal browning on endpapers, contents otherwise clean. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1858-62
first edition of a socio-linguistic study of the German underworld devoting particular attention to Jewish criminality. The third and fourth volumes deal largely with Yiddish and Hebrew elements in German criminal slang. The author (1809-92) was a jurist and criminologist. EJ III, 945.
