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Wonderful prodigies of judgment and mercy, discovered in near three hundred memorable histories ... / collected from antient and modern authors ; and illustrated with pictures ; by Robert Burton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BV4920 .C76 1729
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crouch, Nathaniel, 1632?-1725?, compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian life--Early works to 1800.
- Christian life.
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.
- Conduct of life.
- Conversion--Early works to 1800.
- Conversion.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hatfield, Thomas James, 1788-1819 (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 189, [3] pages : illustrations ; 15 cm (12mo)
- Edition:
- The eighth edition.
- Fingerprint:
- y.nd n.te byns se No (3) 1729 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for A. Bettesworth at the Red-Lyon and J. Batley at the Dove, in Pater-noster-Row, 1729.
- Contents:
- (from title leaf) containing I. Dreadful judgments upon atheists, perjur’d persons, blasphemers, swearers, cursers and scoffers
- II. The miserable ends of divers magicians, witches, conjurers, &c. with several strange apparitions
- III. Remarkable presages of approaching death, and of appeals to divine justice
- IV. The wicked lives, and woful deaths of wretched popes, apostates, and desperate persecutors
- V. Fearful judgments upon cruel tyrants, murderers, &c. with the whole discovery of murders
- VI. Admirable deliverances from imminent dangers, and deplorable distresses at sea and land
- VII. Divine goodness to penitents: with the dying thoughts of several famous men concerning a future state after this life.
- Notes:
- Robert Burton is Nathaniel Crouch, the compiler. See ESTC.
- Signatures: A-H¹².
- Woodcut illustrations.
- Title in border of double rules.
- "A catalogue of books printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon; and J. Batley, at the Dove in Pater-noster Row.": Leaves B11v-B12v.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy has manuscript bibliographical notes in pencil on back pastedown.
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Stuart Bennett.
- Kislak Center copy has autograph ("Thomas Jas Hatfield Travis Isle") of Thomas James Hatfield (1788-1819) on front pastedown.
- Kislak Center copy: tail outer corner of leaf B6 torn off with minor loss of text.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T213329
- OCLC:
- 316682825
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