11th Sep, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 155
 

155

M. de la Créquinière Conformite des Coutumes des Indiens Orientaux, Avec celles des Juifs...

M. de la Créquinière
Conformite des Coutumes des Indiens Orientaux, Avec celles des Juifs & des autres Peuples de l'Antiquite. Brussels: Chez George de Backer, 1704. 12mo, full contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in one, speckled edges; pp. [1]2, 252, [5], blank; 12 plates after Jacobus Herrewyn; provenance: Charles Colmore (armorial bookplate on upper pastedown). Second edition, issued one year after the very scarce first edition, and one year before the first English edition.
Le Sieur de la Créquinière, a French religious scholar, sought to find links between the East Indies and the ancient Jews. He had spent time in India and from this drew the conclusion that there were common religious origins between the two civilisations. The work is seen as an important part of the history of ethnographical understanding, seeking common transcultural elements along with mechanisms of transmission. Querard IV.
Not Sold

 

Binding scuffed, with cracking to joints and a little loss at foot of spine, boards still attached, internally a little toned but generally clean of marking. A very good copy.

 


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