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.

  • Mather, Increase, 1639-1723
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1684
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Remarkable providences

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

22 unnumbered pages, 372 pages, 10 unnumbered pages

References note

Wing (2nd ed.) M1208
Evans 373
Holmes, T.J. Increase Mather 52-C

Notes

"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."--MWA.
A reissue, with cancel title page, of the Boston edition printed by Samuel Green in 1684. Cf. Holmes.
With a final advertisement leaf.
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1892:3) s1999 miun s

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