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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. In Two Volumes. First American Edition, From the London Edition of 1702.
Mather, Cotton · Hartford
- Author
- Mather, Cotton
- Date
- 1820
- Place
- Hartford
- Publisher
- Silas Andrus
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo.(5.25" x 8.75") 595 pp. Full mottled brown calf. Spine with gilt author/title to (chipped) brown leather towards head with gilt Vol.# towards center. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips. Head and foot of spine rubbed, with chipping and loss to head. Prior owners' names to front pastedown and first free endpaper. 3" x 1.5" loss to upper corner of first free endpaper. Foxing and/or dampstain to margins of many pages, mild soiling, finger smudges seen with some darker spots toward center of text. Covers scuffed and rubbed. Each of the books 4-7 with its own title page. Vol.II with gilt title to heavily chipped red leather in second compartment, gilt Vol# to fourth. Upper board held by cords, separated from spine, corners bumped and rubbed with smalls to tips, covers lightly scuffed, chipped at edges, head and foot of spine chipped with smal loss. First two leaves and title page tipped in with paper tape, dampstain to the upper left corner through to page 35. Foxing throughout.
- Format
- Mather, who lived from 1663 to 1728, is the most well-known New England Puritan minister. A native of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he was known not only for his theological writings, but he was also famous for his support of and involvement with the Salem witch trials. These volumes comprise Book 1) the several colonies of New-England, 2) lives of the governours, 3)Lives of the divines, 4) a history and roll of Harvard College, 5) a history of the Congregational Church in New England, 6) a record of the remarkable providences revealing divine influence in the colonies, and 7) the 'War of the Lord' dealing with the devil, the Separatists, Familists, Antinomians, Quakers, clerical imposters and the Indians.
- Edition
- First American
- Category
- History & Americana
- Record
- S.I.8241
8vo.(5.25" x 8.75") 1820. Hartford: Silas Andrus. 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. In Two Volumes. First American Edition, From the London Edition of 1702. 595, 573 pp. Full mottled brown calf. Spine with gilt author/title to (chipped) brown leather towards head with gilt Vol.# towards center. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips. Head and foot of spine rubbed, with chipping and loss to head. Prior owners' names to front pastedown and first free endpaper. 3" x 1.5" loss to upper corner of first free endpaper. Foxing and/or dampstain to margins of many pages, mild soiling, finger smudges seen with some darker spots toward center of text. Covers scuffed and rubbed. Each of the books 4-7 with its own title page. Vol.II with gilt title to heavily chipped red leather in second compartment, gilt Vol# to fourth. Upper board held by cords, separated from spine, corners bumped and rubbed with smalls to tips, covers lightly scuffed, chipped at edges, head and foot of spine chipped with small loss. First two leaves and title page tipped in with paper tape, dampstain to the upper left corner through to page 35. Foxing throughout. Mather, who lived from 1663 to 1728, is the most well-known New England Puritan minister. A native of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he was known not only for his theological writings, but he was also famous for his support of and involvement with the Salem witch trials. These volumes comprise Book 1) the several colonies of New-England, 2) lives of the governours, 3)Lives of the divines, 4) a history and roll of Harvard College, 5) a history of the Congregational Church in New England, 6) a record of the remarkable providences revealing divine influence in the colonies, and 7) the 'War of the Lord' dealing with the devil, the Separatists, Familists, Antinomians, Quakers, clerical imposters and the Indians.
Condition
Good
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