Feb 07, 2008 - Sale 2135

Sale 2135 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500
Instructions Ethnographiques, Projet de Questionnaire Concernant les Caracteres Ethniques du Systeme Reproducteur. An investigation of the reproductive system of Hottentot [South African] bush-men. With 17 plates, 15 are cyanotypes, many depicting close-ups of sexual organs. Tall 8vo, 1/2 blue morocco, edgewear; original covers laid in. Paris, 1872
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A unique anthropological volume at the nexus of exotica and erotica, with close-ups of human genitalia and cutaways of internal organs. The first photograph is a diptych of an Asian woman and her privates followed by another diptych of an African man and his. (Note: The title page indicates 19 plates but there are 17 plates containing a total of 19 images.)


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