Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 253

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Mauclerc, Hippolyte Vivant (fl. circa 1790)
Moyens de Prevenir les Crimes dans la Societe, Author's Presentation Copy.

Grenoble: Chez Ferry, An VIII [1799 or 1800].

First edition, octavo, inscribed by Mauclerc on title page, "à Monsieur Vigaroux, professeur de l'ecole de Montpellier, comme preuve de reconnaissance H.V. Mauclerc," dedicated to Napoleon, with typo corrected in Mauclerc's hand; bound in later marbled paper boards, Librarie Alain Brieux label from 1989 inside front board, 7 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.

Rare at auction.

From Dr. Michael Stone's Psychiatry Collection.