Catastrophe mundi: . or, Europe's many mutations until the year 1701. Being an astrological treatise of the effects of the tripple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682, and 1683, and of the comets 1680 and 1682, and other configurations concomitant. ... Whereunto is annexed, the hieroglyphicks of Nostradamus ... with the addition of many more.
John Holwell
Category
Books
Date
1682
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005115.3
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 80, 73-91, [1], [6] plates : ill. (diagrams, tables) ; 4to. Running number: 1312. Bound with 6 other pamphlets; scraps of eighteenth-century paper inserted as bookmarks between pamphlets. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards; double blind fillet border, blind ruled and tooled central panel with blind-stamped fleuron cornerpieces. Blind roll pattern along board edges. Four raised bands; spine undecorated. Sewn on four supports, laced in. Two colour endbands with front beads; wants tailband. Pastedown on front inner board; pastedown and endleaf at end. Three holes for original stab-stitching on inner margin.
Makers and roles
John Holwell