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B. Picart, del. Tom VII No. 8
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Egraving. 342 x 220mm. A small stain in the margin area at the bottom right-hand corner.
Two perspective views of a Virginian Priest, and a Virginian Magician. 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).
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