Kometographia. Or A discourse concerning comets : wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired into: with an historical account of all the comets which have appeared from the beginning of the world unto this present year, M.DC.LXXXIII. : Expressing the place in the heavens, where they were seen, their motion, forms, duration; and the remarkable events which have followed in the world, so far as thay have been by learned men observed. : As also two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 352. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | First word of title transliterated from the Greek. Preface by John Sherman. Variant states of several sheets noted: outer C (page 27, line 18: AEgy,t; Aegypt); inner C (page 32, line 1: Persian; Persiau); outer G (page 83, headline and line 25: page number at inner margin and W in Wickliffs absent; page number at inner margin and W in Wickliffs present; page number at outer margin and W in Wickliffs present); inner G (pages 88-89: catchword on page 88 is 'holding' and line 27 begins 'the Turks ...'; catchword on page 88 is 'the' and line 27 begins 'remember that I have ...'); inner I (page 125: page is numbered 225 in some copies, 125 in others). Errata note, page 143. "Heaven's alarm to the world. Or A sermon, wherein is shewed, that fearful sights and signs in heaven, are the presages of great calamities at hand. Preached at the lecture of Boston in New-England; January, 20. 1680. By Increase Mather. The second impression ... 1682."--[8], 38, [2], 32 pages, with separate title page. First issued separately (Evans 320; Evans 321; Bristol B59, Shipton & Mooney 39220). This includes "The latter sign discoursed of, in a sermon ... by Increase Mather ..." ([2], 32 pages, Evans 321), also with separate title page. Two states of the imprint to "Heaven's alarm to the world" noted. The first reads "by John Browning" while the second is corrected to "by Joseph Browning". Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 12 unnumbered pages, 143 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 38 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 32 pages ; 15 cm. (octavo) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. |