Description:
Picart, Bernard (1673-1733) Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, Single Volume. Amsterdam: Bernard, 1735.
Folio, volume six only of nine, covering the section on Native American idolaters, and those of the Indian subcontinent, illustrated with thirty-four plates (many after De Bry) of the religious practices of indigenous North Americans and eleven plates of Hindu and other Indian practices; bound in full contemporary tan calf, gilt spine, marbled endleaves; worming to spine, back board starting, joints worn, abrasions, 15 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.
Estimate $400-600
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