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POMEY, FRANCISCO.

Pantheum Mythicum seu Fabuloisa Decorum Historia.

Publisher: Amsterdam: Antonium Schonenburg, 1730.
Edition: Eighth edition; the first was published in 1658.
Condition: Vellum a little dust-soiled; fine copy.
Book ID: 26221

Description

Small 8vo, later vellum with title in manuscript on the spine. Frontis and 27 engraved plates (four folding) by J. Van Vianen.

Comments

¶ A handbook to the gods of the ancients by Francisco Pomey, S.J. (1619-1673), prefect of Lyon and author of other educational books and well-known mythographer. From the library of 20th century scholar Gershon Legman, with his signature dated 1959 on the front free endpaper.

Price: $450.00