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Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England ...
by Mather, Cotton
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. (30), 38 pp.; (2), 75 pp., (1); (2); 238 pp.; (2), pp. 125-222; 100 pp.; (2), 88 pp.; 118 pp. plus two leaves of publisher catalog, one at the beginning, and the other at the end of the text. Double page map of New England and New York is present. Newly bound to style in full polished calf tooled in Cambridge style, with marbled endpapers in a non-pareil swirl pattern. The paper is simetimes toned with age, andwith light soil on the comprehensive title page. Errata note is present on the last page of text. Otherwise this is a very good copy.
Seven books in one, each with its own title page. The seven books include 1) the history and settlement of New England; 2) the lives of its governors and magistrates; 3) biographies of 'Sixty Famous 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.
The map, frequently lacking, is sometimes known as 'Mather's Map.' It is the first 18th century map of New England and depicts an area from Casco Bay, west to the Hudson then south to Manhattan and northwest past Long Island to Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod, before heading north again past Boston to Casco Bay in present-day Maine.
Howes M-391; Sabin 46392; Streeter sale I:658.
With the bookplate of mining magnate James Stuart Douglas on the front pastedown.
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- Title
- Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England ...
- Author
- Mather, Cotton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Thomas Parkhurst
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1702
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- Rare Books;
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