The poetical histories : being a compleat collection of all the stories necessary for a perfect understanding of the Greek and Latine poets, and other ancient authors / written originally in French by the learned Jesuite P. Galtruchius ; now Englished, and enriched with observations concerning the Gods worshipped by our ancestors in this island by the Phoenicians and Syrians in Asia ; with many useful notes and occasional proverbs, gathered out of the best authors ; unto which are added two treatises, one, of the curiosities of old Rome, and of the difficult names relating to the affairs of that city, the other, containing the most remarkable hieroglyphicks of Ægypt.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Gautruche, Pierre, 1602-1681.

Contributor:

D'Assigny, Marius, 1643-1717.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 739:22.

Standardized Title:

Histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poètes. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Classical.

Classical literature--Appreciation.

Classical literature.

Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic.

Egyptian language.

Rome--Antiquities.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 111 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 131-453 pages, 19 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Edition:

The third edition corrected and amended / by Marius D'Assigny.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by W.G., and are to be sold by M. Pitt ..., 1674.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Index: p. [2]-[16] at end.

Advertisement: p. [17]-[19] at end.

Translation of Histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poètes.

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1977. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 739:22)

Cited in:

Wing G386

OCLC:

13065037