[Rarebooks] FS: Picart's Monumental Work on Religion with 263 Engravings, 1789, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $4800 NET.

PICART, Bernard. CEREMONIES ET COUTUMES RELIGIEUSES DE TOUS LES PEUPLES 
DU MONDE, REPRESENTEES PAR DES FIGURES DESSINEES & GRAVEES... 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. 
Amsterdam: Laporte, 1789. Four folio (10" x 16") volumes bound in 
calf-backed marbled boards of one of the most spectacular illustrated 
works of the 18th-century. Illustrated with 263 engravings, all but 1 
full page and some with more than one image, and including 41 large 
folding plates. First published in 1723 with 223 copper engravings, this 
edition is enlarged and appears to be the last published in the 18th 
century and in folio size. The plates, many double-page, illustrate in 
great detail scenes of religious ceremonies, views of temples and 
churches, and religious costumes. 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.

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. "Picart earned a place in the history of Jewish art 
by his realistic portrayal of Jewish religious rites. These constitute 
an invaluable record of Dutch Jewry in the early 18th-century" 
(ENCYCLOPEDIA JUDAICA). (#012310)        $7,500.00

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