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Catastrophe mundi, or, Merlin reviv'd : in a discourse of prophecies & predictions, and their remarkable accomplishment. With Mr. Lilly's hieroglyphicks exactly cut ... As also a collection of all the antient (reputed) prophecies that are extant, touching the grand revolutions like to happen in these latter ages
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Catastrophe mundi, or, Merlin reviv'd : in a discourse of prophecies & predictions, and their remarkable accomplishment. With Mr. Lilly's hieroglyphicks exactly cut ... As also a collection of all the antient (reputed) prophecies that are extant, touching the grand revolutions like to happen in these latter ages / by a Learned Pen.
Published
London : Printed and are to be sold by John How at south west corner of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, and Thomas Malthus at the Sun in the Poultrey, 1683.
Physical Description
[6], 1-[56], 59-123, [1] p. : 17 woodcuts ; 15 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Nkk74 683c: Imperfect? pages 57-58 (Sig. D8) wanting (Wanting also in B.M.'s copy and in copy in U.C.L.). "The: Newcome" in manuscript on t.p.
Notes
A learned pen = William Lilly.
Woodcuts printed on rectos of pages numbered 23-55, with versos blank.
Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁸(-D1) E-H⁸ [I]1.
"A reissue of the appendix to 'Monarchy or no monarchy', 1651 [by William Lilly]." Dict. of nat. biog.
"Written by one of Lilly's adherents against Holwell's book and others." F. Leigh Gardner. Catalogue raisonné of works on the occult sciences. 1911. v. 2, no. 215. (Compare no. 689 in same work).
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day vi, lot 72 (with Boate and Raviglio Rossi), to H.G. Bohn for Beckford, 10/-; Sotheby's, 6 July 1883 (Beckford Sale, Part 3), lot 1036, to Robson & Kerslake, £1.10.0; Libbie, 15 April 1890 (Hart Sale), lot 554.
Horace Walpole's copy with his shelfmark: H.1 scored through, Y.1 written below.
Variant and related titles
Merlin reviv'd
Merlin revived
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 07, 2013
References
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 2352
English short title catalogue, R231167
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, L2214
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Book illustrations - England - 1683.
Woodcuts - England - London - 1683.
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