Hugounenq, Louis

Traité Des Poisons (Treatise on Poisons)

Louis Hugounenq. Traité Des Poisons: Hygiène Industrielle – Chimie Légale (Treatise on Poisons: Industrial Hygiene – Forensic Chemistry). Paris: G. Masson, 1891. First edition. 

Octavo. 509pp. Sparsely illustrated. Contemporary green quarter leather over marbled paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, five raised bands, marbled endleaves. Includes chapters on Arsenic, Cyanide, Opiates, more. Text in French. 

From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs. 

Spine sunned and rubbed; boards gently rubbed and edgeworn; light scattered foxing to textblock edges; minor uniform toning throughout; bookseller’s ticket from Librairie Alain Brieux (Paris) to front pastedown. Very good. Item #3096

Price: $500.00