The Riddle of the Sphinx, or Human Origins


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First Edition.

22cm x 14cm. 302 pages, [2] advertisements, [9] pages of black and white illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt lettering.

Psychoanalytic anthropology by Hungarian Geza Roheim (1891-1953). Roheim and his wife lived on and around the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission in central Australia for nine months in 1929. The 9 pages of illustrations in this work being photographs from this time showing Aboriginal ceremony.

Minor shelf wear and foxing. Very Good Condition.

Jenkins is exhibiting at the Sydney Rare Book Fair.
Online orders can still be placed and will ship from November 3.

AU$150.00

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