great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary
Subtitle: being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history, containing in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and Kings of the Jews ... the genealogy of several illustrious families in Europe, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes, the description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths ... the whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography ... collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers; as Calvisius, Helvicus, etc. but more especially out of Lewis Morery, his sixth edition
By: corrected and enlarged by M. LeClerk, now done into English, to which are added, by way of supplement, intermix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings, of the illustrious families of our English, Scotch, and Irish nobility, gentry, eminent clergy, and most famous men of all arts and sciences, as also an exact description of these kingdoms with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time, by several learned men, wherein are inserted the last five years historical and geographical collections of Edmond Bohun, designed at first for his own Geographical Dictionary, and never extant till in this work.  [Supposed to be edited by Jeremy Collier]
Publisher: Rhodes
Published: 1694
Place of publication: London
Language: eng