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

All titles

• 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
• Remarkable providences; Remarkable providences

People / Organizations

• George Calvert ("printed by")
• Increase Mather (Author)

Imprint

Printed at Boston in New-England, [and London] : and are to be sold by George Calvert at the Sign of the Half-moon in Pauls Church-yard, London, 1684.

Added name

Green, Samuel, 1648-1690, printer.; Calvert, George, active 1648-1682, bookseller.

Publication year

1684

ESTC No.

R215541

Grub Street ID

90556

Description

[22], 372, [12] p. ; 8°.

Note

A reissue, with cancel title page (printed in London), of the 1684 edition printed in Boston by Samuel Green (Wing M1206 and M1207)

"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

Title page is A2r

With errata on p.372, a bookseller's advertisement on 2B7 recto and a final blank leaf; Evans, C. American bibliography, v.1, item 373 gives imprint "Boston in New-England. Printed by Samuel Green. To be sold by Geo. Calvert, London, 1684" but presumably means this issue; Wing makes that assumption

Signatures: A]8(-A1? #+A2) a]4] B-2B]8.

Uncontrolled note

Wing erroneously matches this to Evans 373