Wundersames Prognosticon oder Prophezeyhung was in diesem 1708ten Jahr geschehen soll : Wobey nebst dem Monat auch der eigentliche Tag, und bey einigen gar der Ort und die Stunden ausgedruckt, die Personen genennet, auch alle sonst vorfallende grosse Sachen desselben Jahrs specialiter erzehlet sind, so wie dieselbe künfftig hin sich zutragen werden / Beschrieben durch Isaac Bickerstaff, Edelmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Predictions for the year 1708. German

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Partridge, John, 1644-1715.

Partridge, John.

Astrology--Humor--Early works to 1800.

Astrology.

Genre:

Humor.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

r-in b-n, chr- enn. (C) 1708 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Germany?] : [publisher not identified], [1708?]

Notes:

German translation of Swift's "Predictions for the year 1708," a satire on the almanac-maker, John Partridge, published under the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff.

"Nach der zu Londen gedruckten Copia."

Line 5 of title ends: Jahr. In another edition (Teerink 493), line 5 of title ends: soll.

Signatures: )(⁴.

Without pagination.

Initials; type ornaments.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Penn Libraries copy: spine reinforced with marbled paper strip.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves closely cropped at all margins.

Penn Libraries copy: "edges of pages with a few small tears not touching text, some light dusting and a stain affecting last two leaves (text remains legible)"--Samuel Gedge Ltd.

OCLC:

613455824