Curieuse Feuer- und Unglücks-Chronica: darinnen die Feuers-Brünste der uhralten Kayserl. und des H.R. Reichs freyen Stadt Nordhausen, auch anderer sehr vieler Oerter in und ausser Teutschland, nicht weniger allerhand andre glück- und unglückliche Dinge und Denck-würdigkeiten, ordentlich erzehlet werden, mit einem doppelten Register aufgesetzt

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Year:: 1712
Contributor:: Kindervater, Johann Heinrich.
Subject:: e-gw---; Fires > Germany > Nordhausen (Thuringia); Disasters > Germany > Nordhausen (Thuringia); Smoking > Germany > Nordhausen (Thuringia); Tobacco > Germany > Law and legislation; Nordhausen (Thuringia, Germany) > History; Imprint 1712.; Germany > Nordhausen (Thuringia); Germany > Jena
Extent:: [46], 202, [36], 44, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)

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Notes:: von M. Joh. Henr. Kindervatern, der Kirchen S. Blasii in Nordhausen Pastore.; 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.

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"Curieuse Feuer- und Unglücks-Chronica: darinnen die Feuers-Brünste der uhralten Kayserl. und des H.R. Reichs freyen Stadt Nordhausen, auch anderer sehr vieler Oerter in und ausser Teutschland, nicht weniger allerhand andre glück- und unglückliche Dinge und Denck-würdigkeiten, ordentlich erzehlet werden, mit einem doppelten Register aufgesetzt " (1712). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:733995/

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