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° (313 x 204 mm). Folding engraved map of New England, New York and East Jersey (313 x 378 mm), advertisement for publisher Parkhurst at end. (Engraved map laid down on linen with minor loss at center fold, E3 with tear into text repaired with transparent tape, 7F2 with rust hole touching text, 7P4 short (possibly supplied?), stained, with tear touching text and marginal worming, lacking first blank and 6M2 blank, as in Church, without the errata leaves issued after the distribution of the book, occasional minor soiling or browning.) Contemporary blind paneled calf (rebacked, some wear mostly to extremities). Provenance : Samuel Waldo, (1695-1759), likely the Boston merchant and politician (inscription on title-page of first book); William Thurston (inscription on front free endpaper noting he purchased the book “at the auction of the Library of Saml. Waldo, Esq., Fremont Street Boston”); Samuel Welky (inscription on title-page); American Antiquarian Society (stamp on title-page); sold Sotheby’s New York, 26 October 1988, lot 26. 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 settlement of New England; biographies of its governors and magistrates; "Sixty Famous Divines"; a history and roll of Harvard College; an account of witchcraft 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.
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° (313 x 204 mm). Folding engraved map of New England, New York and East Jersey (313 x 378 mm), advertisement for publisher Parkhurst at end. (Engraved map laid down on linen with minor loss at center fold, E3 with tear into text repaired with transparent tape, 7F2 with rust hole touching text, 7P4 short (possibly supplied?), stained, with tear touching text and marginal worming, lacking first blank and 6M2 blank, as in Church, without the errata leaves issued after the distribution of the book, occasional minor soiling or browning.) Contemporary blind paneled calf (rebacked, some wear mostly to extremities). Provenance : Samuel Waldo, (1695-1759), likely the Boston merchant and politician (inscription on title-page of first book); William Thurston (inscription on front free endpaper noting he purchased the book “at the auction of the Library of Saml. Waldo, Esq., Fremont Street Boston”); Samuel Welky (inscription on title-page); American Antiquarian Society (stamp on title-page); sold Sotheby’s New York, 26 October 1988, lot 26. 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 settlement of New England; biographies of its governors and magistrates; "Sixty Famous Divines"; a history and roll of Harvard College; an account of witchcraft 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.
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