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035 # # $z 14807 (Vol. I) ; 14808 (Vol. II) ; 14809 (Vol. III).
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Calmet, Augustin
240 1 1 $a Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, geographique et litteral de la Bible. English
245 1 0 $a An historical, critical, geographical, chronological, and etymological dictionary of the Holy Bible, in three volumes. $b Wherein are explained all the proper names mentioned in the Old or New Testament, whether of men, women, cities, countries, rivers, mountains, &c. As also most of the significant and remarkable appellatives that any where occur therein. With accounts of all the natural productions, as animals, vegetables, minerals, stones, gems, &c. The whole digested into alphabetical order, and illustrated with above one hundred and sixty copper-plates. Representing the antiquities, habits, buildings, sepulchres, and other curiosities of the Jews. To which is annexed, Bibliotheca sacra, or a copious catalogue of the best editions and versions of the Bible; with a large account of the most valuable commentaries, expositions, and paraphrases upon the whole, or any part thereof, and the authors of the same. And an ample chronological table of the history of the Bible, a Jewish calendar, tables of all the Hebrew coins, weights, and measures, reduced to our own. A dissertation upon Jewish coins and medals; another upon the tacticks of the ancient Hebrews, by the Chevalier Folard: concluding with a literal translation of all the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Greek names in the Bible. With prefaces proper to each part. $c Written originally in French, By the Reverend Father dom Augustin Calmet, a Benedictine monk, Abbot of Senones. and now translated into English, from the author's last edition, with occasional remarks, by Samuel D'Oyly, M.A. late Fellow of Trinity-College in Cambridge, and Vicar of St Nicolas, Rochester: and John Colson, M.A. F.R.S. and Vicar of Chalk in Kent. $n Vol. I [-III].
260 # # $a London $b Printed for J. J. and P. Knapton, D. Midwinter and A. Ward, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. Pemberton, J. Osborn and T. Longman, C. Rivington, F. Clay, J. Batley, R. Hett and T. Hatchett $c M.DCC.XXXII $c [1732]
300 # # $a 3 vols.; 410 mm.
500 # # $a Vol. I [AAI-IZE]: x, 917 p., illus.; Vol. II [KAB-SYR]: 777, [1] p., illus.; Vol. III [TAB-ZUZ]: 740 p., illus. Vol. III also includes the Biblioteca sacra etc listed on the title-page.
500 # # $a Titlepages in red and black.
510 0 # $a ESTC $c T112779
561 # # $a All three volumes have the signature of 'John Wood' in the upper right-hand corner of the title-page.

On the title-page of Vol. I is also the signature of J.[ohn] Mannock O.S.B.

On the recto of the sheet before the title-page of Vol. II in an inscription in ink; 'Bot at Sir Geo: Mannock / Bromley Hall Essex / Price of the 3 Vol [illegible]'
563 # # $a Spine lettered in gold on black labels, 'Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible' and 'Vol. I AAR-IZE. [II KAB-SYR. / III TAB-ZUZ.]'.
653 # # $a Bible $a Dictionaries $a Early works to 1800
700 1 # $a D'Oyly, Samuel $e translator
700 1 # $a Colson, John $e translator
700 1 # $a Wilcocks, Joseph $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Mannock, John $e previous owner
700 1 # $a Mannock, George $e previous owner
700 1 # $a Hitch, Charles $e bookseller
710 2 # $a J. J. and P. Knapton (London) $e publisher/bookseller