March II 2021 Catalogue

B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s F a i t h 2 0 2 1 2 Hurd’s The Religious Rites, Ceremonies And Customs Of The Whole World , With 60 Folio Engraved Plates 2. HURD, William. A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of the Whole World. London, circa 1780. Folio, contemporary full mottled dark brown calf rebacked with original spine laid down. $3200. Click for More Info First edition of Hurd’s richly illustrated survey of world religions, with engraved frontispiece and 60 fine folio copperplate engravings depicting religious rites and ceremonies from around the world. Hurd covers, among others, the modern Jews, the Japanese, and the Native Americans of Canada, California, and Florida. Publisher Alexander Hogg also published Anderson’s renowned illustrated compilation of voyages around the same time. Bookplate. Mild soiling to title page, text and plates clean and fine, expert restoration to corners. Attractive in contemporary mottled calf.