Lot 1118
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FUNERAL CEREMONIES -- PERUCCI, F. Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo. Verona, F. Rossi, 1639. (4), (8), 5-98, (2 blanks) pp. W. engr. ti. & 32 engrs. 4°. Mod. bind. w. marbled paper on sides. (Outer margin ti-p. a bit frayed/soiled, lower margin a bit stained in places).
The plates depict i.a. the burning of the dead in India, dead rites with the Scythians, the Greeks, the Egyptians and other Eastern people, the ancient Romans. - Rare first edition. Graesse V, 216; Lipperheide, Ba4; Hiler, 702; Cicognara, 1752; Mortimer, 395 note.€ 240
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