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Bible] - CALMET, Augustin, O.S.B. - Het algemeen groot historisch, oordeelkundig, chronologisch, geografisch, en letterlyk naam- en woord-boek, van den gantschen H. Bybel (...) [trsl. from the French] Matthaeus Gargon. Leiden, S. Luchtmans, 1725-1727. - VAN OSTADE, Jakob, WESTERHOFF, Arnold Heinrich - Byvoegzel tot het Algemeen (...) woord-boek (...). Eerste (- tweede) deel. Amsterdam, Wetstein & Smith; Leiden, S. Luchtmans, 1731, 4 vol., large folio, cont. goldtooled mottled calf (corners bumped and rubbed, covers rubbed and scratched, lacking parts of leather), gilt spines on 6 raised bands (rubbed, heads and tails of vol. I-III def., joints starting to split), edges gilt, [28]-92-143-[1 bl.]-321-[1]-40-19-[1], [4]-604 (= 498)-[6]-230, [20]-392, [2]-393/924-[24] pp. (some spotting, sm. tears in plate margins, some mended). Good set.
Rare complete set of a major biblical encyclopedia by the French Benedictine scholar Calmet (1672-1757), translated by M. Gargon (1661-1728) and supplemented by the Dutch scholars J. van Ostade (1677-1745) and A.H. Westerhovius (1677-1738). It covers all aspects of biblical history, geography and culture, including Jewish antiquities. On pp. 1-92 (vol. I) a “Gewyde boekzaal” (= extensive Bible bibliography ). Engr. ills : frontisp. by Ph. de Gunst, 2 title vign., 2 cartouches, 6 headpieces and more than 160 engr. maps, plans, views and plates (some folding) by A. de Putter, F. van Bleyswyk, Ph. de Gunst etc. Titles in red and black. Printed in 2 cols. Ref. Poortman II:169-171. STCN. Brunet I 1495. Not in BL, BnF.