The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Several Nations of the Known World.

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 238

(PICART, BERNARD)

The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Several Nations of the Known World.

Six volumes. With hundreds of engraved plates, most with multiple subjects, some double-page or folding. Text in English. Two additional plates of the Jews in Vol. VI with wider margins. Touch browned though all plates clean. Two volumes shorter. Contemporary uniform speckled calf, spines gilt in compartments, gilt dentilles. Folio Rubens 438-57

London: 1731-1737

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,500

An invaluable pictorial record of Jewish life in 18th century Holland. One of the most striking illustrated books of the 18th-century. “Bernard Picart was the outstanding professional illustrator of the first third of the eighteenth century, an age during which the designs for the finest illustrated books were typically drawn by leading painters. He worked for the most part in the fading baroque tradition, but there are elements in his immense production which herald the new age.” G.N. Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book (1986) p.7.