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.

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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. By the Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather, D.D. F.R.S., Complete in Two Volumes, First American Edition, from the London Edition of 1702, Published by Silas Andrus, Hartford, 1820, full original leather bindings, early 20th century frontispiece of Mather from a newspaper in volume I, 9 x 5.75 , 8vo. In fair condition. Front board detached on volume I, volume II nearly detached. Bindings are worn with moderate wear along extremities and corners. Red rot at joints. Ex-library of Messiah College. Head and tails of spines are abraded lacking leather. Cords exposed. Numerous imperfections to surface of leather boards. Ex-Libris dated 1912 on front pastedown of volume I. Internally toned with numerous instances of age staining and dampness staining. Soiling throughout each volume. Free of known marginalia. Rear fly of Volume I is torn. Ink stain affecting text at 495 pp of Volume II. Bindings remain intact. Please see photos. 1st American Edition. This, the most famous of Cotton Mather s work, though relating generally to New England, is principally devoted to Massachusetts. It is the most famous book produced by any American during colonial times. Filled with a vast amount of valuable information, it is indispensable to the student of New England history; but its statements should be accepted only when corroborated by other contemporaneous writers. (Church) This work contains the lives of governors and magistrates, the history of the settlement of New England, the third book relates to the lives of Sixty Famous Divines , and the fourth a history and roll of Harvard College, the fifth is the history of the New England Church, and the least treats of the Wars of the Lord , namely against the devil, the Separatists, Familists, Antinomians, Quakers, clerical imposters, and the Indians. N° de ref. del artículo RAREA1820BNOB

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