Calmet‘s Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Historical, critical, geographical, and etymological: wherein are explained, all the proper names in the old and new testament, men, women, cities, countries, rivers, mountains, &c. also most of the significant and remarkable appellatives: with accounts of the natural productions, animals, vegetables, minerals, stones, gems, &c. The antiquities, habits, buildings, and other curiosities of the Jews. With an ample chronological table of the history of the bible, jewish calendar, tables of the hebrew coins, weights and measures, reduced to our own, &c. &c. revised, corrected, and augmented, with an entirely new set of plates, explanatory, illustrative, and ornamental; under the direction of C. Taylor.

Taylor, Charles and Calmet, Augustin (1797-1801): Calmet‘s Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Historical, critical, geographical, and etymological: wherein are explained, all the proper names in the old and new testament, men, women, cities, countries, rivers, mountains, &c. also most of the significant and remarkable appellatives: with accounts of the natural productions, animals, vegetables, minerals, stones, gems, &c. The antiquities, habits, buildings, and other curiosities of the Jews. With an ample chronological table of the history of the bible, jewish calendar, tables of the hebrew coins, weights and measures, reduced to our own, &c. &c. revised, corrected, and augmented, with an entirely new set of plates, explanatory, illustrative, and ornamental; under the direction of C. Taylor. 2 vols, 2nd ed., vol. 1: XVIII p., 2 p., [6], 650 p.; vol. 2: [IV p.], 747 p., 36 p., 103 p. [=890 p.], London. vol. 1: frontispiece; vol. 2: frontispiece, 4°,

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Calmet‘s Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Historical, critical, geographical, and etymological: wherein are explained, all the proper names in the old and new testament, men, women, cities, countries, rivers, mountains, &c. also most of the significant and remarkable appellatives: with accounts of the natural productions, animals, vegetables, minerals, stones, gems, &c. The antiquities, habits, buildings, and other curiosities of the Jews. With an ample chronological table of the history of the bible, jewish calendar, tables of the hebrew coins, weights and measures, reduced to our own, &c. &c. revised, corrected, and augmented, with an entirely new set of plates, explanatory, illustrative, and ornamental; under the direction of C. Taylor.

Paramount title:

Calmet Dictionnaire de la Bible

Authors:

Creators
Taylor, Charles
Calmet, Augustin

Publisher:

Printed for C. Taylor

Place of Publication:

London

Edition:

2nd ed.

Year:

From	To
1797	1801

Volumes:

2 vols

Format:

4°

Number of pages:

vol. 1: XVIII p., 2 p., [6], 650 p.; vol. 2: [IV p.], 747 p., 36 p., 103 p. [=890 p.]

illustrations:

vol. 1: frontispiece; vol. 2: frontispiece

Language:

English

Translated from:

French

Translated by:

Translated by
Taylor, Charles

Prefaces:

vol. 1: To the reader (p. IV), Introduction to the present edition (p. V-XVI), To the subsribers to Calmet’s Dictionary of the Holy Bible (p. 1-2), List of subscribers (n. p., 6 pages before the main body); vol. 2: Preface to the second volume [(p. III-IV])

Other paratexts:

vol. 1: Errata, and additional references to synonimous articles (p. XVII-XVIII); vol. 2: The Calendar of the Jews (new pagination: 1-5), A general chronological table of the history of the bible (p. 6-30), Tables of Reduction of the Hebrew coins, weights, and measures (p. 31-36), Supplementary addenda corrigenda to Calmet’s dictionary of the Holy Bible by the editor. (n. p., 103 p.)

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Gale, ECCO (via BSB opacplus)

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https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/BV022816945

URI:

http://encyclopaedias.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/297

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