Beccaria m d c l (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Traduit de l'italien d'aprés la Sixième Édition. 424 pp + 95 pp (Approbation , Commentaire, Table Des Matieres). In French, 11 x 18 cms, in original 3/4 leather marbled boards. 50% spine loss. Top hinge loose, later eps. Five pages early handwritten pencil notes on prelim blanks (see images). Earlier bookplate removed. [Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, and politician, who is widely considered as the most talented jurist and one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), as we have here in French translation. This work condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the Classical School of criminology. Beccaria is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice]. A rare survivor.…