Goron Wely (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Mäßig. Illustriert v. Wely J. (illustrator). kA. Auflage. Anzahl Bände: 1 - Bd.Nr.: kA - Sprache: de - Einband: Hardcover - Gewicht: 576 - Illust.: Illustriert v. Wely J. - Zustand: Mäßig - Umschlag berieben, Seiten gebräunt, das vordere Gelenk aufgebrochen,

Éditions Jules Rouff et Cie, Paris - Sans date (vers 1900) - In-8, demi basane aubergine; dos 4 nerfs avec titre, nom de l'auteur et fleurons dorés - 512 p. - Illustrations de J. Wely en N&B hors et in-texte Bon état - Frottements sur la reliure - Dos insolé.

[Love in Paris by Goron, former Chief of The Sûreté.]. First illustrated edition. 8vo., title, 928pp., plate, pp-931- 1888, plate, pp-1891-2832, profusely illustrated with line drawings, contemporaneously rebound, with the original decorative title page, into three in half red roan and marbled paper boards, titles and fillets in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red, copiously annotated in pencil by collector or bookseller in front of volume one, French text. Paris, Jules Rouff et Cie, n.d., 1900. £450.00 Binding a bit bumped and rubbed, endemic light browning of paper. Uncommon with seemingly only three copies on WorldCat. Provenance: from the collections of Jean Pierre Faur and Emmanuel Pierrat. Goron was an eminent policeman who is considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern French evidence-based criminal investigation. He was the head of the Su?rete? , the French FBI perhaps, between 1887-1894 but was dismissed during a corruption purge and, like Vidocq, he became a private detective. This very detailed, and famous, memoir of his time with the police recounts crimes passionelles and the sexual organisation and mores of Paris during the Belle E?poque . The opening scene of the first chapter describes the dead body of a murdered young 'fille publique' of the ' lowest' type, thus: 'Cette femme e?tait une fille publique de la dernie?re cate?gorie, une ?gigolette' des boulevards exte?rieurs, la tre?s vulgaire pierreuse'. 219035 NOTE: THESE ARE HEAVY AND LARGE BOOKS AND WILL ACCRUE EXTRA SHIPPING COSTS.