Oriental antiquities, and general view of the Othoman customs, laws, and ceremonies
Subtitle: exhibiting many curious pieces of the Eastern Hemisphere, relative to the Christian and Jewish dispensations; with various rites and mysteries of the Oriental Freemasons. : Dedicated to the King of Sweden.
By: Translated from the French of M. de M---- d'Ohsson, Knight of the Royal Masonic Orders of Vasa--Templars--Malta--Philippine--Ros a Crucian &c.--Secretary to the King of Sweden; formerly his interpreter and charge d'affairs at the Court of Constantinople.
Contributors: Gustavus III, King of Sweden, 1746-1792, dedicatee.; Lambert, P., engraver.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 21273.
Publisher: Printed for the Select Committee and Grand Lodge of Enquiry.
Published: 1788
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng; fre
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 593
Subjects: Freemasons -- History; Islam
Work titles: Tableau ge ne ral de l'Empire Othoman.
Notes: "This work is divided into two parts entirely distinct and separate from each other: the one comprehends the Mahometan legislation, the other the history of the Othoman Empire.."--p. 5-6.

The present volume comprises the religious code of the Mahometan legislation only. A supplementary volume completing the Mahometan legislation was published in Paris in 1820 by the author's son.

Running title: The religious code.

Plates engraved by P. Lambert "as the act direct 1789 London."

Signatures: pi℗ø aþ́ B-4Fþ́ [4G]1 ([4G]1 verso blank)

Evans 21273.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21273)