Histoire Générale des Cérémonies, Moeurs, et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde ["General History of the Ceremonies, Mores and Religious Customs of All the Peoples of the World."]

(PICART, BERNARD).

Chez Rollin Fils

Paris

1741

Seven volumes. Replete with scores of engraved copper plates (including fold-outs). Vol. I portrays the rites, ceremonies and life-style of the Jews as practiced in 18th-century Amsterdam

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