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194 - PICART (Bernard). Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World. Amsterdam, and available in Paris, Laporte, 1783. 4 volumes, small folio, Bradel-style marbled leather-like cardboard binding, red edges (modern binding).

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Estimation

€500 - 600

Sale fees

30%

PICART (Bernard). Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World. Amsterdam, and available in Paris, Laporte, 1783. 4 volumes, small folio, Bradel-style marbled leather-like cardboard binding, red edges (modern binding). New edition, published by a Society of Men of Letters, illustrated with 264 copperplate engravings: 223 in the first three volumes (numbered 2 through 222, with No. 1 being an in-text vignette at the beginning of Volume I, 36 bis and 86 bis) and 41 in Volume IV illustrating the Superstitions of All the Peoples of the World (numbered I–XLI). Plate No. 179 is duplicated. Plate No. V is missing from Volume IV, and the first leaf is missing from Volume I (note to the bookbinder). Some foxing and water stains; marginal wormholes on a few plates; edges of several leaves soiled. A scorched half-title page.

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Auction details

Antique and Modern Books
Thursday, November 26
11:00 AM
Hôtel Drouot
9, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Giquello +33 1 47 42 78 01 info@giquello.net
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 100,000 lots published

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