The poetical history
Subtitle: being a compleat collection of all the stories necessary for a perfect understanding of the Greek and Latin poets, and other ancient authors
By: Written originally in French by the learned Jesuit 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 Egypt
Contributors: D'Assigny, Marius, 1643-1717, editor; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: The eighth ed. corrected and amended. By Marius D'Assigny, B.D.
Publisher: Printed by F. Collins, for Thomas Guy at the Oxford-Arms in Lumbard-street
Published: 1701
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
Subjects: Classical literature; Early works to 1800; Appreciation; Hieroglyphics; Classical Mythology; History
Notes: Signatures: A-Z⁸, Aa-Ff⁸.

Pages 36, 71, 232, 305 incorrectly numbered 63, 61, 32, 395, respectively; no. 113-128 omitted in the paging.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T111338

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.