Calmet's 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 curiosites 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. Now revised, corrected, and augmented. With an entirely newest of plates, explanatory, illustrative, and ornamental; under the direction of C. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calmet, Augustin, 1672-1757.

Standardized Title:

Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, geographique et litteral de la Bible. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Bible.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3v.,plates )

Edition:

The second edition.

Other Title:

Calmet's dictionary of the Holy Bible

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Charles Taylor, No. 105, Hatton-Garden, Holborn, 1798.

Notes:

First published in 1725 as 'Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, geographique et litteral de la Bible'.

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N28388.

OCLC:

508102067