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Lair, Pierre-Aime. ESSAI SUR LES COMBUSTIONS HUMAINES, PRODUITS PAR UN
LONG ABUS DES LIQUEURS SPRIITUEUSES.

Paris; Chez Gabon: 1800.

An early discussion of Spontaneous Human Combustion, citing various cases
such as that of the Countess Bandi. Lair appears to have drawn much of his
material from period journals such as the Annual Register and the Memoirs
of the Royal Society; he also quotes from Le Cat. He supports the
then-prevalent view that the phenomena was linked to excessive, prolonged
alcohol abuse. There was another edition in 1823. OCLC locates 14 listings
for this edition, but it is scarcer in the trade than that...

Softcover. 4.5"x7", 100 pages, bound in newer plain paper covers; a nice,
clean, wide-margined copy. [03574] $1,200.00


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