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DEMEUNIER, JEAN-NICOLAS. L'Esprit des Usages et des Coutumes des Différens Peuples.
Half-titles. 3 volumes. 8vo, early 19th-century 1/4 green morocco gilt; occasional toning. London & Paris: Laporte, 1786
- Notes: first edition of a survey of miscellaneous customs in European and non-European societies, divided into sections on food, women, marriage, child-rearing and education, rulers, war, social hierarchy, slavery, beauty, sex, pastimes, penal codes, ordeals, torture, murder and suicide, medicine, and funeral practices.
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