MÅ"Urs Orientales: Les Huis-Clos De L'ethnographie [Oriental Mores: The Closed Doors Of Ethnography] Ilex, E. [ÉMile Duhousset]

First edition. 12mo. 31pp. Text in French. Half cloth covered boards with marble paper and a paper spine label. Lacking the illustrated plates, hinges starting, and some overall wear and toning, still a good or better copy with the text complete. "Printed for members and not for sale" (translated from the verso of the half-title page). "Private printing press of the Society of Comparative Anthropology and Ethnology" (translated from the title page). An account of the sexual mores of the region we would refer to as the Middle East today, including the cruel manner in which many women and girls were being controlled physically and sexually at the time, which involved circumcision, infibulation, and even accounts of contraptions one might refer to as chastity belts; as well as the documentation of the many sexual taboos taking place in the region at the time, an instance of a woman getting another woman pregnant, the use of stimulants, and descriptions of eunuchs encountered in Russia and Egypt. A historically and sociologically important yet often unsettling piece of documentation deserving of further study. *OCLC* locates only 3 copies.