This book is about nineteen people executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The author is one of their principal accusers, a well known Puritan minister Cotton Mather.

In 1689, Cotton Mather's Memorable Providence Relating to Witchcraft and Possessions had fanned the fires of witchcraft hysteria in New England. The fear of witches led to a series of dramatic trials in Salem, Massachusetts, which culminated in nineteen people being put to death

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Wonders of the

INVISIBLE WORLD

1862

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Author: Cotton Mather 
Publisher: London: John Russell Smith, Soho Square,1862
Gorgeous leather edition of The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather. London: John Russell Smith, Soho Square, 1862. xvi, 291pp. - (bound with: COTTON MATHER & WITCHCRAFT. Boston: T.R. Marvin & Son, 1870. 30pp.) Frontis. Modern three quarter blue morocco and blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, a.e.g. Bookplates on front pastedown. Internally clean. Size: 8" tall x 5 1/4" wide. A 19th-century reprint of Mather's important work on witches, to which has been added a lengthy introduction. Frontis of original first edition included. Appended is a criticism of Charles Upham's assessment of a related article in the NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. Minimal wear to the covers. marble endpapers. Top edges gild. Tight binding. Clean.
A true Witchcraft classic.


CONDITION: Very Good 

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