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CALMET, Augustin, O.S.B.

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

Paris
Emery ea
1721

€280 - €360

2 vol. in folio, front., [20],cviij, 506 (= 507), [1]; [4], cxxxv, 564, [2] pp. (some waterstaining and browning), with vign. on title, headpieces, 43 double-page & 64 full-page maps and plates. Cont. calf (rubbed, corners bumped), gilt spine on 6 raised bands (joints some splitting, def. at head)

Important and successful Biblical encyclopedia by the French Benedictine abbot Augustin Calmet (1672-1757). 2 more vols were added in 1728 (not present here). First edition. Ref.Conlon 22:388. Cioranescu 15241. BN Paris (3). Not in BL London. Provenance: Ex-libris R.J.L. Simons

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