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The poetical history [electronic resource] : being a compleat collection of all the stories necessar...

The poetical history [electronic resource] : being a compleat collection of all the stories necessar...

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The poetical history [electronic resource] : 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 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.

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The poetical history [electronic resource] : 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 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.

Publisher

London : Printed by F. Collins, for Thomas Guy ..., 1691.

Uniform title

Histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poètes. English.

Date

1691.

Record Identifier

74VvXPQZbeNZ

MMS ID

991010905039702626

Language

English

French

(Language of original)

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Physical content

[16], 144, 161-434 [i.e. 450], [14] p.

Publication information

Publisher

London : Printed by F. Collins, for Thomas Guy ..., 1691.

Edition

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

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1691.

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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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The poetical history [electronic resource] : 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 Jesuit P. Galtruchivs ; now Englished, and enriched with observations concerning the gods worshipped by our ancestors...

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General note

Translation of the author's L'histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poètes.

Pages 304, 450 incorrectly numbered 340, 434 respectively.

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Citation / References Note

Wing G389bA.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/57.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1654:1)

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74VvXPQZbeNZ

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991010905039702626