ADVERTISING - PERROT S.A./A.G. BIEL-BIENNE,
Catalogue pour Articles de l'identification policière/Katalog über Artikel für den polizeilichen Erkennungsdienst.
Biel-Bienne, Perrot S.A./A.G., [circa], 1950. Small folio., orig. limp wrappers, a binder. Company's name in bold silver coloured type on front wrapper. Ti.-p. printed on limp paper. 20 unnumbered lvs., bi-lingual, german/french, cyclostyled text in double-collumns, on rectos only, with tog. 25 photogr. ills., varying in size, pasted within descriptive technical text. WITH a separate section at very end, with a separate title-page: Polizei-Kamera system Bertillon/BertillonPolice Camera. 4 unnumbered lvs. printed on art-paper, printed recto/verso. Large illustration of Bertillon with his camera on ti.0p. and 14 photogr. ills., varying in size, of which three show portraits of criminals, with extensive technical descriptive text to the camera and spare parts. Also added at front an essay in french by theChief of the scientific Police Laboratory Geneva region (Canton) describing recent developments in dactyloscopy. HEGG, P., Une Méthode Nouvelle en Suisse, pour relever les Empreintes digitales de comparaison et ses applications pratiques. Offpr.fr. :La Revue de Criminologie et de Policetechnique, Vol. III, No. 1, janvier-mars 1949. 5pp. 4 ills. of fingerprints. Bi-lingual, french/german, promotional catalogue of a Swiss company PERROT S.A./A.G., based at Bienne/Biel, Switzerland. Advertising instruments on behalf of Police deparments and forensic laboratories, including a separate section on the modern Bertillonpolice-camera for identification and registration of criminals and recidivists. Alphonse Bertillon (1855-1914) was a french criminologist and anthropologist who created the first system of physical measurements, photography, and record-keeping that police could use to identify recidivis criminals. An interesting trade/promotional catalogue. Good copy.
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