Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription

Colophon reads: Jena, gedruckt bey Paul Ehrichen, anno 1712

"Es gieng aber das Feuer den 4. Maji am hellen Mittage auff, in einer Scheune durch unachtsame Drescher, welche, wie man davor hält, es mit dem Taback verwahrloset hatten ...", p. 141-142, is a discussion of tobacco smoking as a cause of fires; further references to tobacco smoking as the cause of fires can be found on p. 142-146

"Anhang an die Feuer- und Unglücks-Chronic, darinne nebst einigen andern Feuers-Brünsten insonderheit die letzte grosse Feuers-Brunst der Stadt Nordhausen eigentlich beschrieben wird con M. Joh. Henr. Kindervatern", p. [1]-40, 4th count, has divisional title page

Signatures: a⁸ (-a8) (a1, a2 versos blank) b-c⁸ A-P⁸ (-P8) (P7 verso blank) ²a-²b⁸ (²a1 verso blank) ²c⁸ (-²c8) (²c7 verso blank)

Includes indexes

Errata: p. [35], 3rd count

Title page printed in red and black; engraved head and tail pieces; initials

Frontispiece illustration shows a bird's eye view of Nordhausen during the great fire of 1712 with God in the clouds sending lightning from on high

Arents Tobacco Collection. Tobacco: a catalogue

Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts (VD 18)

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary vellum with marbled boards

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: there are contemporary ms. underlinings and marginal notations in an unknown hand

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