Observations on divers passages of Scripture : placing many of them in a light altogether new, ascertaining the meaning of several not determinable by the methods commonly made use of by the learned ... grounded on circumstances incidentally mentioned in books of voyages and travels into the East ...

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Harmer, Thomas, 1714-1788.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Jews--Social life and customs--To 70 A.D.
• Jews--Social life and customs.
• Jews--Egypt.
• Jews.
• Egypt.

Penn Provenance:

• Penniman, Josiah Harmar, 1868-1941 (donor)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 446, that is, 436 pages, 24 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Thomas Field ..., 1764.

Notes:

• Published anonymously. By Thomas Harmer; cf. ESTC.
• "Relating I. To the weather of Judæa. II. Their living in tents there. III. Its houses and cities. IV. The diet of its inhabitants, &c. V. Their manner of travelling. VI. The eastern methods of doing persons honour. VII. Their books. VIII. The natural, civil and military state of Judaea. IX. Aegypt. X. Miscellaneous matters."
• Errors in pagination: p. 322 misnumbered 332; p. 433-436 misnumbered 443-446.
• "Advertisement" from the author, p. [21-22] at end.
• Errata on last leaf.
• Includes bibliographical references and index (pages [1]-[20] at end).

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN) T144211

OCLC:

9856002