Dictionarium historicum, geographicum, poeticum, authore Carolo Stephano, gentium, hominum, deorum gentilium, regionum, locorum, civitatum, æquorum, fluviorum, sinuum, portuum, promuntoriorum, ac montium, antiqua recentiora[que] ad sacras, & profanas historias, poetarumque fabulas intelligendas necessaria nomina, quo decet ordine complectens. Editio novissima; cui præter collium, silvarum, desertorum, ... aliisque libris typis excusis, calamo exaratis, chartis geographicis, marmoribus vetustis, nummis atque tabulis antiquis diligenter & fideliter excerptum, magna historiarum insignium, ac rerum copia adjicitur; multa quæ obscuriora videri poterant, exponuntur; quæ superflua fuerunt, amputantur; luxatis ac transpositis locus suus, quoad ejus fieri potuit, restituitur; totus denique liber tum emendationibus, tum additamentis ita adornatur, ut novus, ac plan alius videri possit. Recensuit, supplevit, locisque pen infinitis emaculavit Nicolaus Lloydius, Collegii Wadhami in celeberrimâ acad

People / Organizations

• Charles Estienne (Author)

Imprint

Oxonii: ex officinâ Guilielmi Hall; impensis ejusdem, & Guilielmi Downing, prostant venales apud Joh: Williams, sub signo Coronæ (in areâ vulg. vocat.) Cross-Keys Court in Little Brittain, an. Dom. 1670.

Added name

Lloyd, Nicolas, 1630-1680.

Publication year

1670

ESTC No.

R215711

Grub Street ID

90686

Description

8, 830 p. ; 2⁰

Note

A general dictionary of classical and Biblical proper names, with many quotations from classical poetry. Edited by Nicolas Lloyd, who so updated Estienne's original work that his claim to authorship is not unwarranted.

Not in Madan.