religious ceremonies and customs of the several nations of the known world
Subtitle: represented in above an hundred copper-plates, designed by the famous Picart. Together with historical explanations, and several curious dissertaions. Written originally in French; and now published in English with very considerable amendments and additions ...
Contributors: Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733 ill.
Publisher: Printed for Nicholas Prevost
Published: 1731
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Rites and ceremonies.; Religions.; Religions -- History.
Other titles: Ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world
Work titles: Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde. English. 1731.
Notes: Vol. 4 incorrectly designated as v.4, pt.2; Vol. 7 also called v.6, pt.2.

Title in red and black; title vignette.

Title varies slightly; imprint of v.7: Printed for C. DuBosc.

Vols. 6-7 bound in 1 v.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Vol.3 wanting.
Table of contents: 1. The ceremonies of the Jews, &c.; 2. The ceremonies of the Roman Catholicks.; 3-4. The ceremonies of the idolatrous nation.; v. 5. Ceremonies of the Greeks and Protestants.; 6. Doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, of the Presbyterians, Independents, Anabaptists, Quakers, &c.; 7. Various sects of Mohametans, with an appendix of the lives of Mohammed, Omar, and Ali.