The poetical histories 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 Jesuite, P. Galtruchius ; now Englisht and enricht with observations concerning the gods worshipped by our ancestors in this island, by the Phœnicians, and Syrians in Asia ... ; 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, by Marius d'Assigny ...

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Translation of: Histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poétes. Book 2 has special t.p. with title: The second book of the history of the heathen gods. London : Printed by S.G. and B.G. for M. Pitts, 1671. With errata leaf [2] p. at beginning of second pagination and p. [21]-[22]. Advertisements on p. [20]-[23] at beginning and p. [2] at end. Reproduction of original in Newberry Library. Errors in pagination. Includes index and bibliographical references.