Bidspirit auction | Giovanni Francesco Pivati ”Nuovo dizionario

Giovanni Francesco Pivati ”Nuovo dizionario scientifico e curioso sacro-profano” - Venice, 1747. - Lot of 7 Engravings about South American Natives (Panama, Guyana, Brazil, Peru). Engravings showing: wedding among the Indians of Panama, natives dancing to prepare for war, way of healing fevered people, funeral ceremony in Guyana and Brazil, a slave flayed, Peruvians' desolation during a Sun Eclipse, funeral and burial of the Peruvian leaders, marriage and way of naming their newborns among the Incas.