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De Baecque et Associés

1120 - JACOLLIOT (Louis) (pseudonym: Dr. Jacobus). LOVE IN THE COLONIES. Physiological and emotional peculiarities observed during thirty years spent in the French colonies. Cochinchina, Tonkin, and Cambodia; French Guiana and Martinique; Senegal and the Southern Rivers; New Caledonia; the New Hebrides; and Tahiti.

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€200 - 400

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30%

JACOLLIOT (Louis) (pseudonym: Dr. Jacobus). LOVE IN THE COLONIES. Physiological and emotional peculiarities observed during thirty years spent in the French colonies. Cochinchina, Tonkin, and Cambodia; French Guiana and Martinique; Senegal and the Southern Rivers; New Caledonia; the New Hebrides; and Tahiti. Paris, Charles Unsinger for Isidore Liseux, 1893. In-8 format, [8]-396 pages, white half-cardboard with corners, highly decorated spine, cover and spine (later binding). FIRST EDITION on Holland paper, printed in a run of 330 copies signed by the publisher, with a cover warning booksellers that this volume, published for a small number of readers, must not be displayed on store shelves! This copy is interspersed with 20 beautiful loose color plates bound at the end, drawn and engraved by Fredillo (1855–1924), a caricaturist and illustrator of erotic works. A small tear on the spine; otherwise, a fine copy. (Pia 36).

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Books, Manuscripts, and Autographs
Tuesday, December 1
02:30 PM
3, impasse des Chevau-Légers
78000 Versailles, France

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De Baecque et Associés +33 1 58 40 82 92 versailles@debaecque.fr
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 290,000 lots published

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