Mar 12, 2009 - Sale 2173

Sale 2173 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
VIDOCQ, FRANÇOIS EUGÈNE. Mémoirs de Vidocq, chef de la Police de Surete, jusq'en 1827 . . . 4 volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait in fourth volume. 8vo, modern calf in the antique style; scattered light foxing; custom cloth and paper sleeves and slipcases. Paris: Tenon, 1828-29
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first edition. signed by vidocq in the first three volumes. Eugène Vidocq (1775-1857) was a French police officer and adventurer who rose in rank to become chief of a small, specialized detective force in Paris (the Police de Surete). He later organized a daring robbery which he was ironically put in charge of investigating. Eventually found out, he was dismissed from the police force and died in poverty and obscurity. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Ex-collection Raymond Epstein.