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A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities : explaining the obscure places in classic authors, and ancient historians, relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans : their sacred and prophane rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences, and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French, at the command of the French King, for the use of the Dauphin, the Dukes of Burgundy, Anjou and Berry by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the additions of very useful mapps.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Danet, Pierre, approximately 1650-1709.
- Standardized Title:
- Dictionarium antiquitatum Romanarum et Graecarum. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Classical dictionaries--Early works to 1800.
- Classical dictionaries.
- Antiquities.
- Rome--Antiquities--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.
- Rome.
- Greece--Antiquities--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.
- Greece.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Scott, Will (autograph) (RBC copy 1)
- Penrose, James Thomas (autograph) (RBC copy 2)
- Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (RBC copy 3)
- Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest copy)
- Physical Description:
- 612 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : maps ; 24 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- r.s? ayin e-e- caAc (C) 1700 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for John Nicholson ... Tho. Newborough ... and John Bullord and sold by R. Parker ... and B. Tooke ..., MDCC [1700]
- Notes:
- Signatures: pi1 A² B-Z⁴ [superscript chi]2A-2D⁴ *1 2A-2Z⁴ [superscript chi]3A-3C⁴ 3A-3Z⁴ 4A².
- The signature marks for gatherings [superscript chi]2A-2D⁴ appear in square brackets.
- Title within border of double rules.
- Printed in double columns.
- Booksellers' advertisements on last printed leaf.
- "The first leaf bears an endorsement on verso."--ESTC.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries RBC copy 1 imperfect: 2 maps wanting.
- Penn Libraries RBC copy 2 imperfect: first and last leaf and 1 map wanting.
- Penn Libraries RBC copy 3 has ms. inscription (autograph?) struck through on front free endpaper; 2 autographs struck through and 1 effaced on title leaf.
- Penn Libraries RBC copy 3: spine damaged; boards and some leaves at beginning and end of volume detached.
- Cited in:
- ESTC R14021
- Wing D171
- OCLC:
- 123094604
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