An astronomical description of the late comet or blazing-star as it appeared in New England in November, December, January, and in the beginning of February 1664
Subtitle: Being the first and greatest of the three comets which was seen at London and elsewhere in Europe. Together with a brief theological application thereof
By: By S. Danforth, M.A.
Contributors: Booker, John, 1603-1667
Publisher: Printed at Cambridge in New England, and now reprinted at London for Peter Parker, and are to be sold at the first shop in Popes-Head-Alley next Lombard-Street
Published: 1666
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Comets; Religious aspects
Notes: First printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1665.

Address "To the reader", p. [3-4], 1st count, signed by John Booker, the London astrologer.

The comet referenced in this work is the Great Comet of 1664 which was also documented by Samuel Pepys and considered a harbinger of both the resurgence of the plague of 1665 and the great fire of 1666. To add to the comet's ill omen, there was a lunar eclipse which was also followed by another bright comet in 1665.

Signatures: A-B⁸

Title page printed within single rule border; head piece.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), D174.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, III: p. 141.

English short title catalogue, R36069.

Purchase; 1908; 4022.