[Rarebooks] FS: Picart's History of Religion, 1789, with 263 folio engravings including Jewish and Native American customs

[Charles Agvent]

   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 
qui la composent; enfin celle des Chretiens & de cette multitude de 
branches dans lesquelles 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 deteriorated; boards detached on the third volume, 
the front board nearly detached on the first. Bindings quite worn but 
contents Very Good. $7,500.00	

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