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Libra Esoterica

The gentleman and lady's key to polite literature, or, A compendious dictionary of fabulous history

containing the characters, and principal actions, ascribed to the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. and the manner in which the ancients represented the deities & heroes ... : intended for the assistance of those who would understand mythology, poetry, painting, statuary and theatrical entertainments, and particularly adapted to the use of Latin and French schools

by Thomas Carnan

  • First published:
  • 18th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Signatures: B-Y⁶ Frontispiece signed "Le Pautre." Engraved title-page

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Mythology”. Retained metadata contains “Mythology” in the subtitle, “Mythology” in the subject metadata, and “Mythology” in the edition subtitle.

    • “Mythology”· via Internet Archive
    • “Mythology”· via Open Library
    • “Mythology”· in subtitle
    • “Mythology”· in subject
    • “Mythology”· in edition subtitle
  • Ancient religions, animism, and ritual

    Retained metadata contains “deities” in the subtitle, “Gods” in the subtitle, “deities” in the edition subtitle, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “deities”· in subtitle
    • “Gods”· in subtitle
    • “deities”· in edition subtitle
    • “Gods”· in edition subtitle

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containing the characters, and principal actions, ascribed to the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. and the manner in which the ancients represented the deities & heroes ... : intended for the assistance of those who would understand mythology, poetry, painting, statuary and theatrical entertainments, and particularly adapted to the use of Latin and French schools

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1783London : Printed for T. Carnan ...; Printed for T. Carnan ...English—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
  • Digitization sponsor: Getty Research Institute
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Scanner: scribe1.santamonica.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL17336859W
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