Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, géographique et littéral de la Bible [...].

4 parts in 2 vol., folio; 200 pl. (incl. front.) (n.c., sl. browning, some waterstaining, spotting and browning, worm hole in the lower marg. from quire Iii to the end of vol. II).

Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, spr. edges (rubbed, corners bumped, spines with defects, local stains).

Important and successful Biblical encyclopedia by the French Benedictine abbot Augustin Calmet (1672-1757). The two suppl. volumes (= vol. III & IV, often missing), added in 1728, are present here. Engr ill.: front., vign. on title, headpieces, 102 double-page & 97 full-page maps and plates. At the end of vol. II a stocklist (1 p.).
Prov. Ownership entries on titles deleted. - Maximilien Troostembergh (1765-1830), member of the municipal council of Leuven. - Libr. stamp.