Police, Justice, Crime

First edition.
Contemporary half navy blue sheep bindings, smooth spines decorated with quintuple gilt fillets, gilt friezes at tail, small lacks to headcaps of both volumes and to spine of second volume, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners of second volume bumped, speckled edges, contemporary bindings.
Some light foxing.
Rare.

First edition. The second part is regarded as rare, since Prussia ordered the manuscript to be seized and the copies burned, although in fact the second part is found in many sets.
Contemporary full mottled brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands richly gilt. Red morocco lettering-piece. Lower headcap partly torn. Abrasion to the lower cover with loss along the joint. Two corners rubbed. A brown stain in the upper margin of p. 49, about 2 cm. Loss in the margin at the corner of p. 144, not affecting the text. Marbled endpaper with a cut along the outer margin. Some gatherings browned. A good copy.

First edition.
Bradel bindings in full apple-green boards, smooth spines slightly browned and decorated with gilt fillets, traces of rubbing to headcaps, corners slightly bumped, some tears to leading edges, contemporary bindings.
Some foxing.

Partly first edition, gathering the most famous speeches by Victor Hugo, including some of his most memorable addresses delivered at the tribune of the Legislative Assembly—most notably the speech on constitutional revision and the powerful plea he gave at the trial of his son, on 11 June 1851, before the Cour d'assises of the Seine, in defense of the inviolability of human life. Spurious mention of “eighth edition.”
Complete with the rare portrait of the author by Masson printed on China paper, as frontispiece.
Scattered occasional foxing.
Precious inscribed copy signed by Victor Hugo to Juliette Drouet : « à mon pauvre

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on vélin de cuve paper reserved for the “XX” bibliophile group, the tirage de tête.
A good copy complete with its double covers by Albin Michel and the “XX” bibliophile group.
Joints of chemise rubbed, modern slipcase, tiny insignificant worming to endpapers.

Signed by the author on justification page.

New edition of the work that Lange had published approximately half a century earlier under the name of Gastier, prosecutor at the parliament, and which originally bore the title "Praticien français". Quérard gives the 1755 edition, the last edition, and remarks: "The various intermediate editions underwent considerable modifications; those of 1699 and 1702 were given by Denis Simon, who added observations on various matters. After the author's death, two manuscript works found among his papers were added, one on the Right of indult; the other on Ecclesiastical jurisprudence". Title page in red and black.

Full blonde sheep binding. Spine with five raised bands decorated with a