A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities; . explaining the obscure places in classic authors, and ancient historians, relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans; their sacred and prophane rites and customs; laws, polity, arts and engines of war: also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences, and the inventors of them; with the lives and opinions of their philosophers. Compiled originally in French, at the command of the French King, for the use of the Dauphin, the Dukes of Burgundy, Anjou and Berry: by Monsieur Danet. Made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.
Pierre Danet (Paris c.1650 - 1709)
Category
Books
Date
1700
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3047188
Summary
Bibliographic description
[612]p.,[3] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 4to.. Register as in Castle Drogo copy. The following sigs. are mis-signed in the Nostell copy: O2 mis-signed N2; 2M2 mis-signed M2; 2X2 mis-signed 2U2. manuscript [bookseller's?] inscriptions on front pastedown: PP/; 64.. Provenance: Armorial bookplate; Charles Winn. Plate signed: Warwick sc. 145 Strand. Not in Franks or Viner. [i.e.: Charles Winn (1795-1874)], pasted over an armorial plate lettered Sir George Strickland Ba. [not Franks 28407; but still a plate of Sir George Strickland (1729-1808)].. Binding: Mottled panelled calf; blind ruled and tooled; spine double blind ruled; spine label missing: 'Danet's Clasical dictionary'.
Makers and roles
Pierre Danet (Paris c.1650 - 1709)