BREREWOOD, EDWARD.

Recherches Curieuses sur la Diversité des Langues et Religions (...).

Paris, Olivier de Varennes, 1640.

8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Back board with a bit of loss of leather, showing the wooden boards underneath. Head of spine with minor loss of leather. Dampstain to lower half of leaves. (22), 338 pp.

First French translation of Brerewood’s influential work “Enquiries touching the diversity of languages and religions, through the chief parts of the world”, 1614, which was one of the earliest works dealing with ethnology, the origin of language and the science of religions.
"The author devotes a portion of the work to the first peopling of America, claiming the Tatars as their forefathers" (Sabin). 

Order-nr.: 61322