Calmet, Dictionary of the Bible, 1832

CALMET'S DICTIONARY OF THE HOLY BIBLE, AS PUBLISHED BY THE LATE MR. CHARLES TAYLOR WITH THE FRAGMENTS INCORPORATED. THE WHOLE CONDENSED AND ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. American Edition. REVISED, WITH LARGE ADDITIONS, BY EDWARD ROBINSON, PROFESSOR EXTRAORDINARY OF SACRED LITERATURE IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, ANDOVER. ILLUSTRATED With Maps, and Engravings on Wood. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER, 47 WASHINGTON STREET. NEW YORK: JONATHAN LEAVITT, 182 BROADWAY. MDCCCXXXIl.
 
Full speckled brown leather with black title label and raised bands on spine. Focal cracking and chipping at tail of rear hinge. Corners mildly bumped. Marbled page edges, a bit faded. Set in two columns. Clean, bright, and tight throughout with several folding maps, and numerous in-text figures.
 
Dom Augustin Calmet, who is so famous as a biblical exegetist, was born at Menil-la-Horgne, near Commercy, Lorraine, on 26th February, 1672; and died at the abbey of Senones, near Saint-Die, 25th October, 1757.
 
Calmet’s dictionary, first published in French in 1722, was tremendously popular. It was translated into numerous languages and went through many editions in each of those languages. Later English editors, for example, after Calmet included D’Oyly (1732), Taylor (1798), and Robinson (1832). Taylor’s Calmet was popular well into the second half of the 19th century. There was a three volume anonymous abridgment of Calmet’s dictionary printed in 1759. John Brown of Haddington’s celebrated 1769 Dictionary of the Bible (which also went through many editions for over a century) relies heavily on Calmet.
 
He is also famous for his treatise on vampires and apparitions.
 
Ffep, blank, map, title, iv, 1003, rfep.