The Secret of the Totem.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1905.
Price: $175.00
About the item
First edition. Frontispiece portrait. [ii], x, 216 (last blank) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth, with pictorial gilt stamped upper cover by H.J. Ford. Foxing internally, else very good, some tipped in newspaper clippings. Bookplate of James Edge Partington.
Item #52471
This book discusses the different forms and reasons for infibulation in ancient Greece and Rome, as well as the phenomenon of the "Phallus Curvatus." Also a chapter on the Arunta Animally.
