Magnalia Christi Americana: or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England
- London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702
London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. Full Description:
MATHER, Cotton. 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...London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702.
First edition. (12 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches; 315 x 197 mm.). Seven books in one large folio volume, each with its own title-page and pagination. [2, general title], [28], 38; [2], 75, [1, blank]; [2], 238; [2], 125-222; 100; [2], 88; 118; [2, errata], [2 ads] pp. Bound without the initial blank leaf or the blank after book six. The two leaves of advertisements bound at the end (Church's first variant). Engraved double-page map of New England and New York, neatly silked and mounted on stub. A frontispiece portrait, mounted on a stub.Text in double columns. With the very rare two separate leaves of errata supplied in facsimile. Only very few copies are known of the two leaves of errata, which Mather had printed at Boston after he had received the book from England.
Bound to style in full paneled calf. Boards ruled and tooled in blind. Spine stamped and ruled in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some occasional toning, but very clean. An excellent copy.
“Mather’s Magnalia is the most famous American book of colonial times and the indispensable source for colonial social history. One part of it gives the history of the settlement of New England, another contains the lives of its governors and magistrates, the third relates the lives of ‘Sixty Famous Divines,’ the fourth a history and roll of Harvard College, the fifth is the history of the New England Church, and the last treats of the ‘Wars of the Lord,’ namely against the devil, the Separatists, Familists, Antinomians, Quakers, clerical imposters, and the Indians” (Streeter).
Church 806. Grolier, 100 American, 6. Holmes 213-A. Howes M391. JCB Part III, Volume I, 24. Sabin 46392. Streeter 658.
HBS 69362.
$10,500.
MATHER, Cotton. 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...London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702.
First edition. (12 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches; 315 x 197 mm.). Seven books in one large folio volume, each with its own title-page and pagination. [2, general title], [28], 38; [2], 75, [1, blank]; [2], 238; [2], 125-222; 100; [2], 88; 118; [2, errata], [2 ads] pp. Bound without the initial blank leaf or the blank after book six. The two leaves of advertisements bound at the end (Church's first variant). Engraved double-page map of New England and New York, neatly silked and mounted on stub. A frontispiece portrait, mounted on a stub.Text in double columns. With the very rare two separate leaves of errata supplied in facsimile. Only very few copies are known of the two leaves of errata, which Mather had printed at Boston after he had received the book from England.
Bound to style in full paneled calf. Boards ruled and tooled in blind. Spine stamped and ruled in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some occasional toning, but very clean. An excellent copy.
“Mather’s Magnalia is the most famous American book of colonial times and the indispensable source for colonial social history. One part of it gives the history of the settlement of New England, another contains the lives of its governors and magistrates, the third relates the lives of ‘Sixty Famous Divines,’ the fourth a history and roll of Harvard College, the fifth is the history of the New England Church, and the last treats of the ‘Wars of the Lord,’ namely against the devil, the Separatists, Familists, Antinomians, Quakers, clerical imposters, and the Indians” (Streeter).
Church 806. Grolier, 100 American, 6. Holmes 213-A. Howes M391. JCB Part III, Volume I, 24. Sabin 46392. Streeter 658.
HBS 69362.
$10,500.