DR. JACOBUS X, L'Amour aux colonies, 1893, here with 20 hand-coloured plates, provenance Felix Bryk.

JACOLLIOT, LOUIS (PSEUD. DR. JACOBUS). L'Amour aux colonies. Singularités physiologiques et passionnelles observées durant trente années de séjour dans les colonies françaises. Cochinchine Tonkin et Cambodge Guyane et Martinique Sénégal et Rivieres du Sud Nouvelle Calédonie Nouv. Hébrides et Tahiti. Par le docteur Jacobus X... Paris, Ch. Unsinger pour Isidore Liseux, 1893.

Large 8vo (230 x 150 mm.). vii, (1), 396 pp. With 20 hand-coloured engraved plates by Frédillo (one with small spot to margin). Title printed in red and black. Edition of 330 copies, this is number 330 on paper Hollande. Untrimmed with original wrapper bound in (wrapper partly repaired, small stain). Half vellum binding, slightly worn, gilt spine with green labels, lower title label partly damaged.

First edition. The plates which usually are not present, are probably the same that are present in the work "La Femme Dans Les Colonies Francais Etudes Sur Les Moeurs" by Petrus Durel (1898), but in La Femme they are in black and white.

Jacolliot (1837-1890), French barrister, author and also consul in Calcutta. His sometimes notorious writings were extremely questionable. In his books, he was of the opinion that there is a latent power in every person called Vril, which is only used in a meaningful way to a small extent. The one who controls “Vril” correctly can control humanity.

Provenance: Felix Bryk (1882, in Vienna - 1957, in Stockholm), Swedish anthropologist, entomologist and writer. In entomological circles, Bryk is best known as a lepidopterist; in anthropological history, for his studies in East Africa. He wrote on Carl Linnaeus and was a close friend of Curt Eisner, who worked with him on the Parnassinae (Wikipedia).

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