Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde representées par des figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picard: avec une explication historique, & quelques dissertations curieuses. ...
Bernard Picart (Paris 1673 - Amsterdam 1733)
Category
Books
Date
1737
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3078545.7
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 5; fol. Running number: 6020. Large paper copy. Plate between pp. 30-31 in the "Suplement et corrections" in vol. 5 is hand-coloured. Manuscript inscriptions in John Mitchell's hand on vol. 5 front fly-leaf: "M." and "La Planche des convulsionaires de France est au Commencement de ce Tome. & son Explication à pag. 187*". Binding: eighteenth-century half-bound sheepskin with grey paper over boards (original publisher's temporary binding?); very rough; sewn onto seven raised bands; gilt title and vol. number lettered directly onto spines. Untrimmed edges.
Makers and roles
Bernard Picart (Paris 1673 - Amsterdam 1733), artist and engraver Jean-Frédéric Bernard (1683-1744), editor Antoine-Augustin Bruzen de La Martinière (1662-1746), editor Pierre Lebrun (1661-1729), editor Jean-Baptiste Thiers (1636-1703), editor Jacques Abbadie (1654 - 1727), author Richard Simon (1638-1712) , author Jean-Frédéric Bernard (1683-1744), publisher