B. Picart, del. Tom VII. No. 31.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 345 x 220mm. Sheet 390 x 244mm. No. 31 scuffed in the bottom right-hand corner of the platemark.
Two scenes. 1. The sacrifice of a black lamb, the day of the Fete of the Sun. 2. Feast to honour the Sun the day of the Great Ramy. 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: 12515] £65.00
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 345 x 220mm. Sheet 390 x 244mm. No. 31 scuffed in the bottom right-hand corner of the platemark.
Two scenes. 1. The sacrifice of a black lamb, the day of the Fete of the Sun. 2. Feast to honour the Sun the day of the Great Ramy. 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: 12515] £65.00