The Corrected and Amended Edition
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...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. The Third Edition Corrected and Amended.
London: Printed by W.G. and are to be sold by M. Pitt, 1674.
London, Printed by W.G. and are to be sold by M. Pitt: 1674.
Third edition, corrected and amended. Octavo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches; 172 x 108 mm). [18], 111, [3], 131-453, [15, index], [3, publisher's ads], [4, blank] pp.
Contemporary speckled calf, elaborately gilt-stamped on spine with a red morocco label. Marbled edges. Outer hinges cracked, corner's a bit bumped. Two previous owner's bookplates on front pastedown. A small red sticker on spine. Very good.
HBS 64642.
$1,250.
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