Kometographia. 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 thay 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. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts]

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First word of title transliterated from the Greek. Preface by John Sherman. Signatures: A^8(-A1) B-K^8 (K7 verso, K8 blank); A-E^8. Variant states of several sheets noted: outer C (p. 27, line 18: AEgy,t; Aegypt); inner C (p. 32, line 1: Persian; Persiau); outer G (p. 83, headline and line 25: page no. at inner margin and W in Wickliffs absent; page no. at inner margin and W in Wickliffs present; page no. at outer margin and W in Wickliffs present); inner G (p. 88-89: catchword on p. 88 is 'holding' and line 27 begins 'the Turks ...'; catchword on p. 88 is 'the' and line 27 begins 'remember that I have ...'); inner I (p. 125: page is numbered 225 in some copies, 125 in others). Errata note, p. 143. "Heaven's alarm to the world. Or A sermon ... by Increase Mather. The second impression ... 1682."--[8], 38, [2], 32 p., with separate title page. First issued separately (Evans 320). This includes "The latter sign discoursed of, in a sermon ... by Increase Mather ..." ([2], 32 p., Evans 321), also with separate title page.