Picart, Bernard 'CÉRÉMONIES ET COUTUMES RELIGIEUSES DE TOUS LES PEUPLES DU MONDE. REPRÉSENTÉES PAR DES FIGURES DESSINÉES & GRAVÉES PAR BERNARD PICARD [SIC.], & AUTRES HABILES ARTISTES ... NOUVELLE EDITION...'. AMSTERDAM, 'ET SE TROUVE À PARIS': CHEZ LAPORTE, 1789-1783-1789-1789 4 volumes, folio (15 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.; 392 x 248 mm). Half-titles, 4 engraved headpieces, 264 engraved plates, 6 of which double-page, 35 folding, by and after Picart and others, duplicate final text leaf in vol. II; some foxing, minor offsetting, some toning, marginal dampstaining (vol. II and III). Contemporary French blue half morocco over paper-covered boards, spines with wide semi-raised bands in six compartments, bands decorated with gilt rolls and flanked by gilt fillets, the second and fourth compartments gilt-lettered, others with repeat overall decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers; overall rubbed, corners bumped, some joints just starting.
Picart, Bernard 'CÉRÉMONIES ET COUTUMES RELIGIEUSES DE TOUS LES PEUPLES DU MONDE. REPRÉSENTÉES PAR DES FIGURES DESSINÉES & GRAVÉES PAR BERNARD PICARD [SIC.], & AUTRES HABILES ARTISTES ... NOUVELLE EDITION...'. AMSTERDAM, 'ET SE TROUVE À PARIS': CHEZ LAPORTE, 1789-1783-1789-1789 4 volumes, folio (15 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.; 392 x 248 mm). Half-titles, 4 engraved headpieces, 264 engraved plates, 6 of which double-page, 35 folding, by and after Picart and others, duplicate final text leaf in vol. II; some foxing, minor offsetting, some toning, marginal dampstaining (vol. II and III). Contemporary French blue half morocco over paper-covered boards, spines with wide semi-raised bands in six compartments, bands decorated with gilt rolls and flanked by gilt fillets, the second and fourth compartments gilt-lettered, others with repeat overall decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers; overall rubbed, corners bumped, some joints just starting.
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