1820 - MAGNALIA AMERICANA: ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND - COTTON MATHER

MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA: OR, THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF NEW-ENGLAND FROM IT FIRST PLANTING IN THE YEAR 1620, UNTO THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1698Book Details + Condition: Silas Andrus (Hartford), 1820. First American edition from the London edition of 1702. Complete in two volumes. 8 Vo. Beautifully rebound in leather binding with gilt and raised bands to spine, and marbled boards. Pagination: 573, 595. Considered to be Cotton Mather's best-known work, and a kind of typological and documentary history of New England. The Magnalia is thoroughly American, as Mather intended. It is a major work of American historiography and an invaluable source of information about Puritan New England. "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