[Rarebooks] FS: Picart's Ceremonies, 1789, with 263 engravings including Jewish and Native American customs

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PICART, BERNARD. CEREMONIES ET COUTUMES RELIGIEUSES DE TOUS LES 
PEUPLES DU MONDE, REPRESENTEES PAR DES FIGURES DESSINEES & GRAVEES.... 
Amsterdam: Laporte 1789. Four folio (10" x 16") volumes bound in 
calf-backed marbled boards. Ouvrage qui comprend l'histoire 
philosophique de la religion des nations des deux hemispheres; telles 
que celle des Brames, des Peguans, des Chinois, des Japonois, des 
Thibetins, & celle des differens peuples qui habitent l'Asie & les 
Isles de l'Archipelage Indien; celle des Mexicains, des Peruviens, des 
Bresiliens, des Groenlandois, des Lapons, des Caffres, de tous les 
Peuples de la Nigritie, de l'Ethiopie & du Monomotapa; celle des 
Juifs, tant anciens que modernes, celle des Musulmans & des 
differentes sectes quila composent; enfin celle des Chretiens & de 
cette multitude de branches dans les quelles elle est subdivisee. 
Illustrated with 263 engravings, all but 1 full page and some with 
more than one image, and including 41 large folding plates. Perhaps 
the best known illustrated history of religion of the 18th century, 
this work is especially noteworthy for its depictions of Jewish 
religious customs as well as a number of plates after De Bry of Native 
American ceremonies. First published in 1723 with 223 engravings, this 
edition is enlarged and appears to be the last published in the 18th 
century and in folio size. This edition is not in Sabin. Bookplates of 
O'Connell and Adolph Grant on the pastedowns. Contents quite clean 
with a minimum of foxing; occasional tear or crease rarely with any 
effect on an image. Bindings with edgewear, spines deterioriated; 
boards detached on the third volume, the front board nearly detached 
on the first. Bindings quite worn but contents Very Good.   $4500

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