MATHER, Cotton (1663-1728). 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. London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1702.
MATHER, Cotton (1663-1728). 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. London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. 2 o 12 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. (318 x 204 mm). Folding engraved map of New England, New York and East Jersey (321 x 393 mm). Advertisement for publisher Parkhurst at end. Early paneled calf, edges red. (Engraved map with short clean tear to lower margin, title backed along right margin, lacking blank leaves preceding section titles, upper corner Cc2 repaired, light dampstaining in final quires, covers detached, spine lacking). Provenance ; Lenox Library (discard stamp on verso); John Albree (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Mather's indispensable source for American colonial history: "the most famous book of Colonial times" (Streeter). The finely engraved map is "the first eighteenth-century general map of New England" (McCorkle), depicting in considerable detail European settlements and inland exploration. The seven books include the history and settlent of New England; biographies of its governors and magistrates; "Sixty Famous Divines"; a history and roll of Harvard College; an account of witchraft and possessions in New England; and the "War of the Lord" with the devil, Separatists, Familists, Antinomians, Quakers, and Indians. Church 806; Grolier American 6; Howes M-391; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps , 702.3; Schwarz & Ehrenberg, Mapping of America , pp.133-134; Sabin 46392; Streeter sale I:658. WITH THE MAP IN FINE CONDITION.
MATHER, Cotton (1663-1728). 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. London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1702.
MATHER, Cotton (1663-1728). 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. London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. 2 o 12 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. (318 x 204 mm). Folding engraved map of New England, New York and East Jersey (321 x 393 mm). Advertisement for publisher Parkhurst at end. Early paneled calf, edges red. (Engraved map with short clean tear to lower margin, title backed along right margin, lacking blank leaves preceding section titles, upper corner Cc2 repaired, light dampstaining in final quires, covers detached, spine lacking). Provenance ; Lenox Library (discard stamp on verso); John Albree (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Mather's indispensable source for American colonial history: "the most famous book of Colonial times" (Streeter). The finely engraved map is "the first eighteenth-century general map of New England" (McCorkle), depicting in considerable detail European settlements and inland exploration. The seven books include the history and settlent of New England; biographies of its governors and magistrates; "Sixty Famous Divines"; a history and roll of Harvard College; an account of witchraft and possessions in New England; and the "War of the Lord" with the devil, Separatists, Familists, Antinomians, Quakers, and Indians. Church 806; Grolier American 6; Howes M-391; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps , 702.3; Schwarz & Ehrenberg, Mapping of America , pp.133-134; Sabin 46392; Streeter sale I:658. WITH THE MAP IN FINE CONDITION.
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