Another on 22/23. ), c. 1861 £ 40,000 Oil…COSIMO I, Patent Letter to Michelangelo Angeli, 1556FOSSEYEUX, The Twelve Hours of the Day and Night, c. 1804If you would like to know more about any of the books featured on our website, please contact us. "The most famous 18th century American book" and one which Streeter describes as "the most famous American book of colonial times." Green, for Nathaniel Belknap, Boston, 1724. Thomas Parkhurst, London, 1702. According to Holmes, the portrait was not originally published with the work and appears "to have been added to special copies, either at the time of publication, or since." "It is the most famous book produced by any American during colonial times. EVANS 2775. Although Mather's exploration herein of the wonders of nature is intended to exhibit God's presence in the world, the book is essentially scientific and was apparently written with a self- aggrandizing motive. [2], iv, 10, 207, [1]; the first two leaves in facsimile on old paper, and without the one leaf of the table of contents at the back; modern calf-backed marbled paper-covered boards, spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1. 8 x 12.25 inches. Title page backed, half-title including imprimatur on verso; Author s Defense and Presentation Letter by Chief Justice William Stroughton. 1702.
Church 806; Holmes, Cotton Mather 213A; Sabin 46392; Schwartz page 133-135; Streeter sale 2:568. London: Thomas Parkhurst., 1702. Lacking the blank leaf between books five and six, else complete. First edition.RATIO DISCIPLINÆ FRATRUM NOV-ANGLORUM. Bibliography: BL T.1693.(4. Minor pencil marginalia with a few sentences underlined, ostensibly by one of the Stowes, and with a brief note on p. 70 that appears to be in Calvin's hand (based on comparison with one of his letters in the Beecher-Stowe family papers held by Harvard University's Schlesinger Library). 3 vols. Cotton Mather's homage to his famed and prolific father, one of the most influential men in the history of colonial New England, who died the previous year. Widely accepted as the most famous book of the colonial period and is the indispensible source for American colonial-social history. 8vo., (8 4/8 x 5 1/8 inches). First Edition. Matthews, London, 1721. leather. V, VI, and VII. (1690): ISBN 9781171297192 (978-1 … His narrative on Hannah Dustan is one of the best known accounts of captivity by, and escape from, the hostile Indians. In all, there are just over 354 pages of the book, which is slightly less than half of Mather s great history (should be 786 pages). Much of the book's value rests in its incomparable wealth of detail regarding daily life in early colonial New England. This book contains the first account of these trials written by Cotton Mather (1663 1728), one of the leading religious authorities of the second generation of Puritan settlers in Boston. With the original folding map of New England and New York, and with the separate engraved title-pages for each of the seven books. Bound in antique-style spotted calf with a red morocco spine label. Large 8vo, old 3/4 morocco and marbled boards; t.e.g. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three quarters leather, gilt titles to the spine. A long tear on page 21/22 sewn together with thread. Large paper 4to, bound in contemporary ribbed tan cloth, the printer's gray paper wrappers are retained within, the spine with a paper label printed in black. Without the separately-issued errata leaves, as usual. Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from its First Planting, in the Year 1620, unto the Year of Our Lord 1698. Some historians would argue he played a not insignificant role in what happened in Salem. He was ordained in 1685 at the Boston Second Church were he stayed for the rest of his life. NEW IARSEY. Details of marginalia and condition in detail below. Cotton Mather (1662/63-1727/28) was a Puritan clergyman, author and scholar, son of Increase Mather. Cotton s father Increase, was a respected judge in the same community. Thaumaturgus: vel Liber memorabilium : the sixth book of the New-English history : wherein very many illustrious discoveries and demonstrations of the divine providence in remarkable mercies and judgments on many particular persons among the people of New-England, are observed, collected and related -- -- from Magnalia Christi Americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of New-England : from its first planting in the year 1620, unto the year of Our Lord, 1698, in seven books.
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