Notes on criminal classes in the Bombay Presidency with appendices regarding some foreign criminals who occasionally visit the Presidency including hints on the detection of counterfeit coin. With illustrations
Bombay [i.e., Mumbai]: printed at the Government Central Press, 1908. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 340, [2]; frontispiece, 11 plates, plus 7 more plates at the back showing 11 illustrations; original brown cloth stamped in black and gilt; lightly rubbed else very good, sound, and clean. Early ownership signature of S. P. Hieb, Sholapur. From the Preface: "These Notes, kindly revised, while the proofs were going through the press, by Mr. R. B. Stewart, M. A., I. C. S., Inspector-General of Police, Bombay Presidency, are an attempt to bring together and up to date in a practical form, such information as is available respecting the methods and distinctive characteristics of the Criminal Classes belonging to the Bombay Presidency and of certain foreign Criminal Tribes visiting it for the purposes of crime ... To ensure accuracy and fullness of interesting and useful detail, Gazetteers, Police Records, Major Gunthorpe's Notes on Criminal Tribes, experienced Police Officers and reliable 'informers' have been consulted and the information thus obtained sifted and subjected to verification." The illustrations show a number of the purported perpetrators, their weapons and other criminalia. Item #71119
Price: $850.00
