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Session 1 | June 5, 2017  | 450 Lots

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Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde réprésentées par des figures dessinés de la main de Bernard Picart; avec des explications historiques et des dissertations curieuses.- Nouvelle édition, entièrement conforme a celle de Hollande...- Paris: L. Prudhomme, 1807.- 5 tomos em 6 vols. (tomos 1, 2, 6, 7 [2 vols.] e 12): il.; 40 cm.- E. A working copy with several faults and imperfetions, consisting of volumes I (Juifs et Chrétiens Catholiques), II (Catholiques Romains), VI (Peuples Idolâtres), VII ([première partie] Peuples Idolâtres), VII ([deuxième partie] Peuples Idolâtres) e XII (second des Superstitions). The set has numerous faults and imperfections, difficult to discriminate. The most serious and visible are the following: Volume I (disjointed): includes 27 full page engraving (frontispiece + 26 engravings accordingto index), lacking engravings 4, 17, 21, 22 and 28 (all double), deep worm cut affecting the last 12 leaves and 3 engravings), slight watertide stain in the upper third; volume II: prserves all the 33 engravings (5 double), but the 5 first ones are dameged by watertide stains worm cuts, the last 20 leaves and the 2 engravings (remaining engravings, clean, including 3 double); volume VI (no stains or cuts: lacking 7 engravings of the 27 that should contain (3, 5, 6, 13, 19, 23 and 26); volume VII (1st part): complete with the 44 engravings, but about half of the volume and engravings damaged by heavy stains of fungi and worm cuts; volume VII (2nd part): complete with the 33 engravings, clean and with no cuts; volume XII: complete with the 2 engravings, worm cut on the lower margin of the first half and heavy watertide stain and fungi on the second half. Fine entire racinée calf bindings of the time with smooth spines.

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