A Practical Guide To American Book Collecting (1663-1940)

Hubbard was a leading cleric of his day and the sermon following the history should properly be present. This is the most important narrative of the early Indian wars, rare and valuable but by no means unobtainable. The item appears with many variants in detail, but any copy with the genuine map is highly desirable. Mr. Randolph G. Adams, of the Clements Library at Ann Arbor, Mich., is the accepted authority. Hubbard was born in England, graduated from Harvard in 1704, and devoted a lifetime to his Ipswich Congregation. BOSTON, MASS. 1693 COTTON MATHER 1663-1728 MATHER, C. THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD. OBSERVATIONS AS WELL HISTORICAL AS THEOLOGICAL, UPON THE NATURE, THE NUMBER, AND THE OPERATIONS OF THE DEVILS. ACCOMPANYD WITH, I. SOME AC COUNTS OF THE GRIEVOUS MOLESTATIONS BY DAEMONS AND WITCH CRAFTS, WHICH HAVE LATELY ANNOYED THE COUNTREY AND THE TRIALS OF SOME EMINENT MALEFACTORS EXECUTED UPON OCCASION THEREOF WITH SEVERAL REMARKABLE CURIOSITIES THEREIN OCCURRING. II. SOME COUNSILS, DIRECTING A DUE IMPROVEMENT OF THE TERRIBLE THINGS, LATELY DONE, BY THE UNUSUAL AMAZING RANGE OF EVIL SPIRITS, IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD THE METHODS TO PREVENT THE WRONGS WHICH THOSE EVIL ANGELS MAY INTEND AGAINST ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE AMONG US ESPECIALLY IN ACCUSATIONS OF THE INNOCENT. III. SOME CONJECTURES ON THE GREAT EVENTS, LIKELY TO BEFALL, THE WORLD IN GENERAL, AND NEW-ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR AS ALSO UPON THE ADVANCES OF THE TIME, WHEN WE SHALL SEE BETTER DAYES. IV. A SHORT NARRATIVE OF A LATE OUTRAGE COMMITTED BY A KNOT OF WITCH ES IN SWEDELAND, VERY MUCH RESEMBLING, AND SO FAR EXPLAINING, THAT UNDER WHICH OUR PARTS OF AMERICA HAVE LABOURED V. THE DEVIL DISCOVERED IN A BRIEF DISCOURSE UPON THOSETEMPTATIONS, WHICH ARE THE MORE ORDINARY DEVICES OF THE WICKED ONE. BY COTTON MATHER. Boston. Printed by Benj. Harris for Sam Phittips y 1693. 800. Cotton Mather, the most powerful churchman in American history and infinitely the most prolific of Colonial writers, was both the first great advocate of vaccination against small pox and the most stubborn believer in actual witchcraft. No other document than his life of Phipps in his Magnalia Christi Americana is needed to prove him a writer of outstand ing ability. This book is the high point of New England erudite bigotry and superstition virtually his defense of his participation, the year previous, in the Salem Witchcraft persecutions, wherein he aided and abetted the hanging of 19 persons and the pressing to death of one old man who, knowing he had no chance of justice, refused to plead, thus saving his property for his daughter. Cotton Mather was the grandson of Richard Mather. His father was Increase Mather and his mother Maria Cotton, daughter of John Cotton in honor of whose English home the American city of Boston was named. Representing the alliance of the two most powerful New England clerical families, he assumed life charge of the Second Church at only twenty five. His ambition to be president of Harvard was thwarted and he helped to found Yale. BOSTON, MASS. 1707 JOHN WILLIAMS 1664-1729 WILLIAMS, J. THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE, RETURNING TO ZION. A FAITHFUL HISTORY OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES, IN THE CAPTIVITY AND THE DELIVERANCE OF MR. JOHN WILLIAMS MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, IN DEERFIELD, WHO, IN THE DESOLATION WHICH BEFELL THAT PLANTATION, BY AN INCURSION OF THE FRENCH INDIANS, WAS BY THEM CARRIED AWAY, WITH HIS FAMILY, AND HISNEIGHBORHOOD, UNTO CANADA. WHERE TO THERE IS ANNEXED A SERMON PREACHED BY HIM, UPON HIS RETURN, AT THE LECTURE IN BOSTON, DECEMB. 5, 1706. ON THOSE WORDS, LUK. 8.39. RETURN TO THINE OWN HOUSE, AND SHEW HOW GREAT THINGS GOD HATH DONE UNTO THEE. Boston inN. E. Printed by B. Green Jor Samuel Phillips t the Brick Shop. 1707. Small 8vo. An extremely rare item, probably not more than half a dozen copies being in existence. Even later editions are of material value, this being the original...