Augustin Calmets...Biblisches Wörterbuch, worinnen was zur Geschichte, Critik, Chronologie, Geographie, und zum buchstäblichen Verstande der heiligen Schrift gehöret, abgehandelt wird. Aus dem französischen übersetzt, mit verschiedenen Anmerkungen begleitet, und unter der Aussicht, auch mit der Vorrede Herrn Christian Gottlieb Jöchers, der h. Schrift Doctoris, und öffentlichen Lehrers der Geschichte auf der Universität zu Leipzig, nebst den nöthigsten Kupfern herausgegeben von M. Hieronymus George Glöckner

Liegnitz: David Siegert, 1751. First German language edition. Hardcover. Good. Four volumes, quarto, published between 1751 and 1754 (complete). Early 1750's German translation of the 1730 French edition "Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, geographique et litteral de la Bible" by French Benedictine monk, Antoine Augustine Calmet. Part I: A-D. [21], 893, [4]pp. Frontispiece engraving. Part II: E-L. [2], 1140, 6]pp. With one folding text leaf "Geschichtregister Herodes des Großen." Part III: M-S. [1], 1116, [4]pp. Part IV: T-Z. [4], 409, [14], 604, [39]pp. Part IV includes "Calmets Biblische Bibliothek," which is a catalog of the best editions (truncated) and versions of the Bible. Bound in modern library maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. Marbled edges. Modern endpapers. Introduction by Christian Gottlieb Jöcher. Edited by Hieronymus George Glöckner. Illustrated with 41 copper-engravings, maps and plans of which 30 are in fold-out. Decorative initials, head- and tailpieces. Text in German, gothic script. Minor staining on binding. Small library inventory sticker near tail of spines. Ex-libris of "Hebrew Union College Cincinnati, Eduard Birnbaum Collection" on inside of front board. Blind library stamp on bottom-margin of title-page. Annotations in pencil on margins on few leaves. Few sentences on page 577/578 in Vol. I highlighted in red crayon. Map at page 406 in vol. IV missing 4" x 5" section at lower right corner, affecting map. Sporadic foxing and age toning. A good ex-library copy. (Inventory #: 30603)