Picart, Bernard (1673-1733), engraver. CÉRÉMONIES ET COUTUMES RELIGIEUSES DES TOUS LES PEUPLES DU MONDE [DES PEUPLES IDOLATRES]. REPRESENTÉES PAR DES FIGURES DESSINÉES DE LA MAIN DE BERNARD PICARD. AMSTERDAM: J.F. BERNARD, 1723-1737 7 volumes (of 11), folio (397 x 245mm.), [4 (incl. half-title)], 168, 165-211, [1], 49, [3], 150, [2]; [12 (incl. half-title)], XLII, [8], 153, [1], 206, [2]; [4 (incl. half-title)], 386, 38, 84, [2]; [4 (incl. half-title)], 197, [1], 104; 396; [4 (incl. half-title)], 348, [1]; [4 (incl. half-title)], 291, [1], 32, 160pp., 7 title-pages printed in red and black, half-title in each volume, illustration: engraved vignette on title-pages, 220 (of 223) engraved plates (a few folding or double-page), the final plate partly coloured by hand, engraved head-pieces, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, binding: contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments, lacking vols. 8-11, lacking one plate each in vols. 2, 4 & 5, without half-title in vol. 5, slight worming in lower margins of vols. 1 & 4, short in one plate in vol. 7, some light spotting, bindings slightly rubbed
Picart, Bernard (1673-1733), engraver. CÉRÉMONIES ET COUTUMES RELIGIEUSES DES TOUS LES PEUPLES DU MONDE [DES PEUPLES IDOLATRES]. REPRESENTÉES PAR DES FIGURES DESSINÉES DE LA MAIN DE BERNARD PICARD. AMSTERDAM: J.F. BERNARD, 1723-1737 7 volumes (of 11), folio (397 x 245mm.), [4 (incl. half-title)], 168, 165-211, [1], 49, [3], 150, [2]; [12 (incl. half-title)], XLII, [8], 153, [1], 206, [2]; [4 (incl. half-title)], 386, 38, 84, [2]; [4 (incl. half-title)], 197, [1], 104; 396; [4 (incl. half-title)], 348, [1]; [4 (incl. half-title)], 291, [1], 32, 160pp., 7 title-pages printed in red and black, half-title in each volume, illustration: engraved vignette on title-pages, 220 (of 223) engraved plates (a few folding or double-page), the final plate partly coloured by hand, engraved head-pieces, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, binding: contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments, lacking vols. 8-11, lacking one plate each in vols. 2, 4 & 5, without half-title in vol. 5, slight worming in lower margins of vols. 1 & 4, short in one plate in vol. 7, some light spotting, bindings slightly rubbed
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