Histoire Générale des Cérémonies, Moeurs, et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde

(PICART, BERNARD)

Chez Rollin Fils

Paris

1741

Seven volumes. 243 engraved copper plates (including Jewish religious rites and ceremonies)

Rubens 436-60

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 elements in his immense production which herald the new age.” Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book (1986) p.7