Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, volume 5, l'inauguration premiere, plate and premiere dissertation sur le mahometisme, first two pages

fine illustrated reprint edition of the most important works concerning the world's religions as known in early eighteenth-century Europe

Bernard, Jean-Frédéric, 1683?-1744

1723-1743

Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733

fre

CLIO id: 4560864

Leander van Ess (1772-1847)

"So precious a foundation": The Library of Leander van Ess at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, ed. Milton McC. Gatch, New York 1996, pp. 359-360 s.v. XI.9

1723 1743

exact

Amsterdam

books

nnc-ut

Union Rare Folio OD30 C41

Physical description for set from which digital images were taken:
8 vols. in 9
253 leaves of plates, some folded
in this set vol. 1 has as frontispiece Picart's 1727 engraving "Tableau des principales religions du monde"

for an image of Muhammad as reading from the Quran to his followers, see the frontispiece by Adolf van der Laan (c.1690-1742) for the revised French edition of du Ryer's 1747 French Quran translation, published by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam 1734

references:
STCN PPN 251242188 and 164352457 for the 1737 reprint of vol. V, which includes the Islam section
Elizabeth M. Sheets, "Jean-Frédéric Bernard: Précurseur du mouvement philosophique du XVIIIe siècle," MA thesis, Columbia University, 1934
Maxime Préaud, "Bernard Picart," in: Grove Art Online, available at: http://www.oxfordartonline.com:80/subscriber/article/grove/art/T067311pg2 (accessed 11 June 2011)
Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Religionsbilder der frühen Aufklärung: Bernard Picarts Tafeln für die Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, Wabern, Berne 2006
Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion, eds. Lynn A. Hunt et al., Los Angeles, Calif. 2010

eng

rd

Burke [UTS] Union Rare

book in 8 vols.

40 x 26 cm