Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament. / Par le R.P.D. Augustin Calmet, ... ; Josué, les Juges et Ruth.
Augustin Calmet (1672 - 1757)
Category
Books
Date
1711
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3242237
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], Liv, [2], 264 [i.e. 364], [2], xxx, 320, [2], 321-371, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) ; map ; 4to. Uniformly bound and shelved as part of a 20 vol. set of Calmet’s Commentaries, 1707-1715. Imperfect: lacks divisional half-title for Judges. Divisional half-title for commentary on Ruth has been mis-bound between the preface and text for the commentary on Judges. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754) in Genesis only: Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled sheep over boards on four raised bands plus two false ones; gilt spine tooling and numbering; red-brown title label; gilt roll on board edges; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Augustin Calmet (1672 - 1757), author