Observations
on the Esoteric Manners and Customs of Semi-Civilized Peoples;
being a Record of Thirty Years' Experience in Asia, Africa,
America and Oceania. By a French Army-Surgeon.
2 vols. 30664;
PQ4 (no author noted); GL; TDB (author as "Carrington,
Charles (ed.)").
[Deals
with sexual customs and practices of primitives in French colonial
territories. Originally
published Paris: Libraire de Médicine, folklore et anthropologie,
1898. Published in a
single volume edition by the American Anthropological Society, New
York, n.d., with the author's name printed on the spine as
"Dr. Jacobus X". The introduction to the book is signed
by Charles Carrington, who was a publisher of books on erotic or
sexual themes, usually with anthropological or historical
subjects.]
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