Kom?tographia. 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 they have been by learned men observed. As also two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars. By Mr. Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England

People / Organizations

• Samuel. Sewall. ("printed for")
• Increase Mather (Author)

Imprint

Boston in New-England: printed by S[amuel]. G[reen]. for S[amuel]. S[ewall]. And sold by J. Browning at the corner of the Prison Lane next the town-house, 1683.

Publication year

1683-1683

ESTC No.

W19542

Grub Street ID

329194

Description

[12], 143, [3]; [8], 38, [2], 32 p. ; 8⁰

Note

First word of title in Greek characters.

First "To the reader" signed: John Sherman.

Leaf K8 is blank.

"Heaven's alarm to the world ... The second impression" has separate pagination, register, and title page dated 1682, and includes divisional title page, "The latter sign discoursed of", which begins new pagination on ?C8r. This edition was also issued separately (Wing M1218).