Cometomantia. A discourse of comets: shewing their original substance, place, time, magnitude, motion, number, colour, figure, kinds, names, and, more especially, their prognosticks, significations and presages / Being a brief resolution of a seasonable query, viz. Whether the apparition of comets be the sign of approaching evil? Where also is inserted an essay of judiciary astrology, giving satisfaction to this grand question, whether any certain judgments and predictions concerning future events, can be made from the observation of the heavenly bodies? Both occasioned by the appearance of the late comets in England and other places. [Anon. By J.E.?].

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1684
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London : Printed for Brab. Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons overagainst the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1684.

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6 unnumbered leaves, 296 pages ; (8vo)

Notes

Signatures: A7 (A³ signed A⁴) B-T⁸, U⁴
Page 271 wrongly numbered 217
Title within double line border
Dedication "To the Right Reverend Father in God, Seth, Lord Bishop of Salisbury, and Chancellour of the most noble Order of the Garter"
Marginal references
Authorship attributed to John Edwards by Dict. Nat'l. Biog., and Wing, D.G. Short title catalogue

References note

Wing E199
ESTC R1452
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), E199

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