Histoire Générale des Cérémonies, Moeurs, et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde. Eight volumes. 1723-43. * WITH: (PICART, BERNARD). Superstitions Anciennes et Modernes. Two volumes. 1733-46.

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J.F. Bernard

Amsterdam

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Together, two works in ten volumes. With hundreds of engraved plates, most with multiple subjects (including Jewish religious rites and ceremonies), some double-page or folding. Text in French.

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. An invaluable pictorial record of Jewish life in 18th century Holland. A fine set in a particularly attractive binding.