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ROSS, ALEXANDER. Les Religions du Monde. 15 half-page engraved illustrations. [16], 400 pages, including engraved additional title. 4to, 256x193 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, short cracks at bottom of joints, bottom of spine chipped; contents generally clean, insignificant wormtrail in blank lower margins toward beginning, rear free endpaper missing. Amsterdam: Jean Schipper, 1666
first edition in french of a work on comparative religion in dialogue form first published in 1653 in English. Pages 77-89 concern the New World, describing Indian practices in Virginia, Florida, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. Alden 666/139.
