The poetical history
Subtitle: being a compleat collection of all the stories necessary for a perfect understanding of the Greek and Latine poets, and other ancient authors
By: written originally in French by the learned Jesuit P. Galtruchivs ; now Englished, and enriched with observations concerning the gods worshipped by our ancestors in this island, by the Phœnicians 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 hierogliphicks of Ægypt
Edition: The fifth edition corrected and amended / by Marius D'Assigny ...
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1654:1
Publisher: Printed by F. Collins, for Thomas Guy ...
Published: 1691
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 450
Subjects: Classical Mythology; Hieroglyphics; Antiquities
Work titles: Histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poètes
Notes: Translation of the author's L'histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poètes.

Pages 304, 450 incorrectly numbered 340, 434 respectively.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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