[Rarebooks] FS: 1800 Spontaneous Human Combustion - French Study by Pierre-Aime Lair

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“Essai sur les Combustions Humaines, produits par un long abus des 
liqueurs spiritueuses”

by Pierre-Aime Lair.
Printed in Paris by Chez Gabon in 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. 
Scarce in the marketplace.

Softcover. 4.5"x7", 100 pages, bound in newer plain paper covers. A 
nice, clean, wide-margined copy in a new clamshell case.  $1,200

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