O. Diraison-Seylor
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1905.

A dismissed French naval officer’s study of the “exotic” women of Asia and the Pacific, illustrated with nude plates by Amedee Vignola. The work comprises extended chapters on Japan, China, and Madagascar, alongside sections devoted to Creole women and the Pacific, with shorter episodes on the women of Christchurch (New Zealand), Sydney (Australia); in which, after the visitor’s humorous impressions of the locals’ obsession with the harbour, the working women and hullabaloo of Woolloomooloo and the racetrack are described; and Tonga, Tahiti, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Wallis, and French Polynesia. Issued by Charles Carrington, the Paris publisher best known for finely produced editions of erotic and controversial literature circulating on the margins of official respectability. Unrecorded in Trove, this cataloguer locates only three physical institutional holdings worldwide: Ohio State University, the Bibliotheque nationale de France, and the Bibliotheque de Geneve.