Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde [...]. Tome premier, qui contient les ceremonies des juifs & des chrétiens catholiques.

2 parts in 1 vol., folio: [12]-xlii-[8]-153 pp.; 13 pl., 206-[2] pp.; 22 pl. (browning, some foxing, waterstained throughout, 1 pl. split).

Contemp. brown calf, gilt orn. spine with raised bands and label (used, spine part. missing).

Complete first volume (of 9) with 35 beautiful plates (depicting i.a. Easter celebration, circumcision, Youm Kippur...) by Bernard Picart (1673-1733); these contributed to make this book famous. This "philosophical history of the religion of the nations of the two hemispheres" is a compilation extracted from the writings of R. Simon, J. Abbadie, Dupin, Thiers, Le Brun, Boulainvilliers etc., edited by the bookseller-publisher J. Fr. Bernard, Bruzen de La Martinière and a few others.
Ref. Cohen 134/135. - STCN 256139644.
Joined: 1. Reelant, Adriaan - Antiquitates sacrae veterum Hebraeorum [...]. Praefationem praemisit Joan[nes] Franciscus Buddeus [...]. Leipzig, J. H. Richter for J. Fr. Wehrmann, 1713. 8vo: [8, incl. front.]-476-[68] pp. (browning, sm. wormtrack in the first ff.; sl. touching front., and wormholes till the half in blank marg., occ. ms. annot.). Contemp. vellum, flat spine titled in ink (sl. spotting, wormtrack on upper pastedown and flyleaf). Noted Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist, Reelant (1676-1718) is considered to have made a long-lasting and significant contribution to the research of the historical geography of early Palestine. His "Antiquitates" (1st ed.: 1708) is a study of the geography of biblical Palestine, ill. by an engr. front. by J. C. Oberdorffer. Ref. BSB Munich. - BnF. - Not in VD18. Prov. Ms. ownership entries.-- 2. Bellarminus, Robertus - Institutiones linguae Hebraicae, postremo recognitae, ac locupletatae [...]. Cologne, P. de la Roviere, 1616. 8vo: [8]-334 pp.; 2 pl. (sl. browned, some foxing and faint dampstaining). Contemp. brown sheep, flat spine with labels (used, joints sl. split). Later edition of the famous Hebrew manual by Bellarmino (1542-1621), 1st published Rome 1576. Ill. with 2 tables summarising elements of grammar, conjugation, etc. Part 2 ("Prima Elementa Linguae Syriacae" by Myriacaeus, 32 pp.) is missing. Ref. DBS I:1152. - Bibl. de Genève. - USTC 6703573 (= printed in Geneva) - Not in VD17, BL STC German 1601-1700. Prov. Maurists of Orléans (ms. ownership entry, 1699). - Vals-près-le-Puy, S.J. (stamps). (3 vol.)