b'173 (PICART, BERNARD). The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Several Nations of the Known World.FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION.Complete in seven volumes bound in six. With hundreds of engraved plates, some double-page or folding, most with multiple subjects. Includes the 25 plates of Jewish historic interest in Vol. I. Two additional plates of the Jews in Vol. VI with wider margins. Touch browned though all plates clean. Two volumes shorter. Contemporary calf, rubbed. Folio. [Rubens, Jewish Iconography nos. 438-57.] London, 1731-39. $4000 - $6000 ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE 18TH CENTURY.174 (POGROMS)*The Pogroms in Poland and Lithuania. Special Number of the Jewish Labour Correspondence. pp. 46. London, 1919. Together three pamphlets. English text. *Israel Cohen. A Report on the Pogroms in Poland. pp. 36. London, 1919.*Kieff Pogrom Relief Committee. Jewish Pogroms in South Russia. pp. 27. London, 1920.Original printed wrappers. First stained, second with taped repair. 4to and 8vo. London, v.d. $500 - $700 During the military conflicts that engulfed Eastern Europe following theconclusionofWorldWarI - the Russian Civil War, the Polish-Ukrainian War, and the Polish-Soviet War,manypogromsagainstJews werelaunchedbyallsides.These three contemporaneous reports each contain detailed accounts of outrages committed.THIS CATALOGUE REPRESENTSSELECTIONS FROM THE AUCTION. ALL LOTS ARE VIEWABLE VIA OUR WEBSITE 84'