[Rarebooks] fa: GREAT HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL AND POETICAL DICTIONARY - 2 Folio Vols. - 1694

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[Louis Moreri, Jean LeClerc, Edmund Bohun, et al:] The Great Historical, Geographical and Poetical Dictionary; being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History. Containing, in short, the Lives and most Remarkable Actions of the Patriarchs, Judges, and Kings of the Jews [etc.]... The Genealogy of several Illustrious Families in Europe. The Fabulous History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes. The Description of Empires, Kingdoms, Common-wealths [etc.] ... The Whole being full of Remarks and Curious Enquiries, for the Illustration of several Difficulties in Theology, History, Chronology and Geography. Collected from the best Historians, Chronologers, and Lexicographers... especially out of Lewis Morery...; In Two Volumes in Folio. Now done into English. To which are added, by way of Supplement, intermix'd throughout the Alphabet, the Lives, most Remarkable Actions, and Writings, of the Illustrious Families of our English, Scotch, and Irish Nobility, Gentry, Eminent Clergy, and most famous Men of all Arts and Sciences: As also an exact Description of these Kingdoms; with the most Considerable Occurrences that have happened to this Present Time. By several Learned Men. Wherein are Inserted the last Five Years Historical and Geographical Collections of Edmond Bohun, Esq; designed at first for his own Geographical Dictionary, and never Extant till in this Work. London: Printed for Henry Rhodes, near Bride-Lane in Fleetstreet; Luke Meredith, at the Star in St. Paul's Church-Yard; John Harris, at the Harrow in the Poultry; and Thomas Newborough, at the Golden-Ball in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1694. First edition. Two volumes, folio (40 cm), in early/period sheepskin rebacked in modern cloth, with original spine labels laid down; unpaginated but ca. 1246 pp.; with the publishers' dedicatory leaf and list of subscribers. Wing M2725; ESTC R30084.

Anything that anyone alive in 1694 could possibly want to know about almost anything under the sun (or beyond it, for that matter), from "Aa. A Fountain in the province of Bearn, which the Country People call the Arquebusade or Fountain of Musket Shot, because it has a peculiar Virtue to cure Wounds of Fire-Arms"; to "Zygantes. Ancient People of Africa, that used to paint their Bodies with Vermillion, and liv'd on Hon[e]y and Swans."

Original boards well rubbed and worn; edge-wear and browning to the first few leaves of volume I, occasional scattered spots and touches of soiling elsewhere, otherwise the contents are generally quite clean and sound, firmly bound.