Author: SCOTT, GEORGE RYLEY.
Title: Curios Customs Of Sex And Marriage. An Inquiry Relating To All Races And Nations From Antiquity To The Present Day.
Description: Limited First Edition; 8vo; pp. 312; patterned endpapers matching dustjacket; coloured frontispiece; 32 illustrations bibliography, index; dustjacket has some bumps to corners and edges; some flecking to page edges; a very good copy. London, Torchstream Books, 1953. Limited first edition of 975 numbered copies of which this is No. 661. Half title page includes curious warning that tthe book is restricted to Anthropologists, Ethnologists, Psychologists, Sociologists, the Clergy, and Members of the Medical and Legal profession. Includes various forms of marriage, fertility rites and other customs, prohibitions and taboos, celebration of marriage.

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