Antiquities sacred and profane, or A collection of curious and critical dissertations on the Old and New Testament / written in French by ... Augustin Calmet ; done into English, with notes by N. Tindal ... : Numb. VII, containing two dissertations ... : To be continued monthly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calmet, Augustin, 1672-1757.

Contributor:

Tindal, N. (Nicholas), 1687-1774.

Standardized Title:

Commentaire littéral sur tous les livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament. No. 7. English. Selections.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Bible in numismatics.

Coins, Ancient.

Circumcision.

Physical Description:

3 unnumbered pages, 164-183 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Roberts ... and sold by J. Knapton, and W. and J. Innys ... J. Pemberton and T. Woodward ... S. Wilmot and W. Wells at Oxford, C. Crownfield, at Cambridge, 1725.

Contents:

(from t.p.) I. On the antiquity of coined-money, with cuts of some antient medals or coins, engraven on copper; to which are added tables of the Hebrew measures, weights and money, reduced to our English ones; as likewise of the Grecian and Roman coins

II. On the original and antiquity of circumcision, proving what has been advanced by Herodotus, and others after him, to be false in almost every particular.

Notes:

Translation of the chapter on Genesis, 22 from: Commentaire littéral sur tous les livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament.

English translation issued in 14 no., 1724-27.

"Of whom may be had the former numbers": statement on t.p. following imprint.

Local Notes:

In Political economy pamphlets. -- Vol. 13.

OCLC:

16109175