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Author	Gautruche, Pierre, 1602-1681.
Title	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 P. Galtruchius ; now Englished ... unto which are added two treatises: one, of the curiosities of old Rome ... the other, containing the most remarkable hieroglyphicks of Aegypt.
Publication Info.	London : Printed by W.G., and are to be sold by M. Pitt, 1674.

Location	Call No.	Status
Rare Books Winthrop	Win 110	IN LIBRARY

Edition	The third edition corrected and amended / by Marius D'Assigny, B.D.
Description	[16], 111, [3] p., p. 131-453, [19] p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Note	W.G. = W. Godbid. Cf. ESTC.
	Signatures: A-2G⁸ 2H⁴.
	Translation of: Histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poètes.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	bk. 1. The history of the heathen gods -- bk. 2. The history of the heathen demi-gods -- bk. 3. The honours paid to the heathen gods -- bk. 4. A treatise of Roman curiosities -- bk. 5. The hieroglyphicks of the Egyptians.
Indexed In:	Wing G386
	ESTC R438
Local Note	Library copy with ̀̀̀"È libris Josephi Browne 1676" and other markings in iron gall on front free endleaf. No. 28 in ink on front pastedown; 134 in recd crayon on front free endpaper.
	Library copy with "Lege, intellige, Vive. JB. Bost" in iron gall on t.p.
Subject	Mythology, Classical.
	Classical literature -- Appreciation.
	Rome -- Antiquities.
	Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic.
Genre or Form	Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- 17th century.
Added Author	D'Assigny, Marius, 1643-1717, editor.
	Godbid, William, printer.
	Browne, Joseph, former owner.
	Pitt, Moses, active 1654-1696, bookseller.
	Winthrop Collection (New York Society Library).
Added Title	Histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poètes. English

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