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 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.
Contributors: D'Assigny, Marius, 1643-1717.
Edition: The fifth edition corrected and amended / by Marius D'Assigny.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 739:23.
Publisher: Printed for M. Pitt ...
Published: 1683
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 453
Subjects: Mythology, Classical.; Classical literature -- Appreciation.; Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic.; Rome -- Antiquities.
Work titles: Histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poètes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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

Advertisement: p. [17]-[27] at end.

Translation of Histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poètes.

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

Wing G388

Arber's Term cat. I 513

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1977. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 739:23)