B. Picart, del. Tom VII. No. 30.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 342 x 222mm. Sheet 390 x 243mm.
Two scenes. 1. The Peruvian way to light the Sacred Fire, the old lady of the Great Fete of the Sun named the Great Ramy. 2. The first day of the Great Fete of the Sun, where the Incas present a plain vase of liquor to him and invite him to drink it. An offering made to the Gods. 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: 12514] £65.00
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 342 x 222mm. Sheet 390 x 243mm.
Two scenes. 1. The Peruvian way to light the Sacred Fire, the old lady of the Great Fete of the Sun named the Great Ramy. 2. The first day of the Great Fete of the Sun, where the Incas present a plain vase of liquor to him and invite him to drink it. An offering made to the Gods. 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: 12514] £65.00