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LACASSAGNE, Alexandre. Vacher ou l'éventreur et les crimes s - Lot 589
LACASSAGNE, Alexandre. Vacher ou l'éventreur et les crimes sadiques. Published in Lyon and Paris by A. Storck and Masson et Cie in 1899. In octavo / In-8 format (260x165 mm). Eggplant half leather, smooth spine. IV-314 pages, 11 figures in the text and 2 plates. Fairly good condition, spine slightly oiled. Rare first edition of this study of the Joseph Vacher case, one of the first French serial killers, suspected of the deaths of 50 people and guillotined in 1898, written by French physician Alexandre Lacassagne. Lacassagne had also taken part in Vacher's trial as an expert psychiatrist, responsible, along with two other doctors, for assessing the criminal's mental state. Some handwritten inscriptions in the margin.
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