History of the heathen gods, and heroes of antiquity : to which is added an original translation of the Battle of the gods and giants : the whole newly arranged, corrected and enlarged with the addition of several original and valuable articles / by William Sheldon ... .

Accession number:

PML 83904

Author:

Sheldon, William.

Published:

Published at Worcester [Mass.] : By Isaiah Thomas, Jun. sold at his bookstores in Boston and Worcester, c1810 ([Worcester, Mass.] : Isaac Sturtevant, printer).

Description:

216 p., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm

Notes:

Includes index (p. [205]-216).
Running title: Heathen gods.
Not in Welch.
Some plates signed: Akin; some signed: Wightman.
Battle of the gods and titans : from the Theogony of Hersiod [sic] (p. 179-183).
Includes: Appendix : explanations of the constellations, planets, times and seasons : represented on the Farnese globe.

Binding:

marbled paper boards; sprinkled calf backstrip.

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