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An essay for the recording of illustrious providences : wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events, which have happened in this last age; especially in New-England. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines from Psalms].
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 372
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 372.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Providence and government of God.
- Witchcraft.
- Supernatural.
- Apparitions.
- History.
- New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Religious aspects.
- New England.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Physical Description:
- 22 unnumbered pages, 372 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; (8vo)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Other Title:
- Remarkable providences.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston in New-England : Printed by Samuel Green for Joseph Browning, and are to be sold at his shop at the corner of the Prison Lane., 1684.
- Notes:
- "The work is a collection of accounts of happenings of rare, extraordinary and marvellous nature; of storms at sea with remarkable deliverances; of lightning, magnetism, earthquakes, and other natural phenomena; and of demons and witchcraft."--Holmes.
- Running title: Remarkable providences.
- Not in Evans or Bristol.
- Errata note, p. 372.
- Bookseller's advertisement, p. [9] at end.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 372).
- Cited in:
- Shipton & Mooney 372
- Wing (2nd ed.) M1206
- Holmes, T.J. Increase Mather, 52-A
- OCLC:
- 55825895
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