[Rarebooks] FS: 1800 French Book on Spontaneous Human Combustion -Lair

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: "Essai sur les Combustions Humaines, produits par un long abus des
liqueurs spiritueuses"

By Pierre-Aime Lair.
Printed in Paris by Chez Gabon: 1800.

DISCUSSION: 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.
Scarce in the marketplace.

DESCRIPTION: Softcover. 4.5"x7", 100 pages.

CONDITION NOTES: Bound in newer plain paper covers; a nice, clean,
wide-margined book in a new clamshell case.

PRICE: $1,200.00

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