BERTILLON, Alphonse Anthropometric identification.... Lot 1025

BERTILLON, Alphonse Anthropometric identification. Instructions for identification. New edition. Melun Imprimerie administrative 1893 In-4°. Half-brown chagrin, black percaline plates, golden spine with 5 nerves, marbled paper endpapers. New edition by the French criminologist and major figure in the history of forensic science A. Bertillon (1853-1914). Founder of the first police laboratory for criminal identification and creator of forensic anthropometry, known as the "Bertillon system" or "bertillonnage". A set of investigative methods, body measurements, the use of anthropometric photography also known as "face/profile", descriptive reporting called "spoken portrait", description of physical stigmas, modernization of police files, identification through the exploitation of clues and traces, etc. Ill. in black and white. See also number 700. Ref. BnF. - COPAC. Prov. to "Monsieur Coeuille, chef du Service des Jeux, hommage bien cordial", November 30, 1893 (aut. dedication).