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, MDCLXXXIII : 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 they have been by learned men observed : as also two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England.

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Main Author: Mather, Increase, 1639-1723
Other Authors: Sherman, John, 1613-1685, Green, Samuel, 1648-1690 (Printer), Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730 (Publisher), Browning, Joseph, -1691 (Bookseller)
Language:English
Published: Boston in New-England : Printed by S.G. [i.e. Samuel Green] for S.S. [i.e. Samuel Sewall] and sold by J. Browning at the corner of the Prison Lane next the town-house, 1683.
Subjects:
Comets > Early works to 1800.
Comets > Religious aspects > Early works to 1800.
Astronomy > Early works to 1800.
Sermons > 17th century.
Leather bindings (Binding) > United States > 17th century.
MSU: Insertions (Provenance)
Genre:
Early works to 1800.
Sermons
Leather bindings (Binding)
MSU: Insertions (Provenance)
Ownership and Custodial History:
MSU: Early ownership inscriptions of William Averell and Nathaniel Averell on leaves K7v-K8v (likely supplied from a different copy). Ownership signatures of Henry Fowles on leaves A5r and A8r, the latter dated 1780. Drawing of a comet on inside front board, with date 1723 nearby. Ownership signature of William Lucas on rear free endpaper, though the signature probably predates the leaf's addition to this copy.
MSU: Additional provenance information located in MSS 466 box 3 file 189.
Local Note:
MSU: Imperfect: Lacking the last leaf; title page torn and inlaid, with some loss of text; stitched folk repair to tear in leaf ²D1; leaves A2 (title page), A3, K7, K8, and ²A1 likely supplied from a different copy.
MSU: Last line on leaf G3v begins "whence the Turks."
MSU: Special binding.
MSU: Conservation 2015 Wallace Conservation Lab, MSU Libraries
Binding Information:
MSU: Contemporary full leather assymmetrically tooled in blind; original paste-downs later removed, leaving offset image of printed waste on inside boards; later free endpapers likely supplied from a different book.
Physical Description:12 unnumbered pages, 143 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 38 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 32 pages ; 15 cm (8vo)
Variant Title:
Discourse concerning comets.
Heaven's alarm to the world.
Latter sign discoursed of in a sermon.
Format: Book

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