Kiwasa Idole des Virginiens. Le Dieu des Vents, autre Idole des Virginiens.
B. Picart, del. Tom VII No.7.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 345 x 222mm. Sheet 390 x 247mm.
Kiwasa: This Idol is placed in the temple of the town of Secotam, as the keeper of the king’s dead corpses. The God of Wind. Both idols are key to Virginian culture. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12492] £120.00
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 345 x 222mm. Sheet 390 x 247mm.
Kiwasa: This Idol is placed in the temple of the town of Secotam, as the keeper of the king’s dead corpses. The God of Wind. Both idols are key to Virginian culture. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12492] £120.00