GAUTRUCHE

GAUTRUCHE, PIERRE & D'ASSIGNY, MARIUS - THE POETICAL HISTORY 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 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 hierogliphicks of Aegypt. London, Thomas Guy, 1691. Fifth edition, 8vo, small wormhole to lower inner margin of sig.K (not affecting text), some marginal tears and staining, stitching a little loose, calf, corners of upper board worn with loss. ESTC R39959, scarce, 2 recorded locations in Britain with a further 6 in N America