The Finger Print Instructor

Published by Munn & Company, New York, 1916

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA

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Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's bottle green cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. 155pp. Minor scuffing to the spine ends and corners, otherwise clean and handsome; internally clean, pencil ownership to front flyleaf, front inner hinge cracked showing linen, secure but still more mobile than desirable, illustrated throughout, with 11 plates of fingerprint card samples in pocket affixed to the inner rear pastedown, with two additional original fingerprint cards also present. A very good copy marred by a cosmetically cracked hinge. One of the earliest complete instructional texts on the proper method of taking, preserving, and accurately analysing fingerprints in the field of criminal investigation.

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Bibliographic details

Title
The Finger Print Instructor
Author
KUHNE, Frederick
Publisher
Munn & Company, New York
Publication year
1916
Edition
First American Edition.
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Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA

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Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA

661 Millwood Ave, Ste 206
Winchester, VA U.S.A. 22601