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, of 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 Rible, 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.

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--Geography.

Bible.

Bible--Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2v.,plates )

Other Title:

Calmet's great dictionary of the Holy Bible

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Charles Taylor, No. 105, Hatton-Garden, Holborn, 1797-1801.

Notes:

A translation of Calmets' 'Dictionnaire .. de la Bible'.

The dictionary is preceded in vol. 1 by an introduction, an errata leaf, an address to subscribers and a list of subscribers.

An advertisement was published with the title: 'This day is published (sold by all booksellers and stationers) price one shilling, .. Calmet's Dictionary'.

Vol.2 is dated 1801.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T27442.

OCLC:

642559635