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Record Nr.

UNISA996397420203316

Autore

Mather Cotton <1663-1728.>

Titolo

The wonders of the invisible world [[electronic resource] ] : being an account of the tryals of several vvitches lately excuted [sic] in New-England, and of several remarkable curiosities therein occurring : together with, I. Observations upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devils, II. A short narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of witches in Swede-land, very much resembling, and so far explaining, that under which New-England has laboured, III. Some councels directing a due improvement of the terrible things lately done by the unusual and amazing range of evil-spirits in New-England, IV. A brief discourse upon those temptations which are the more ordinary devices of Satan / / by Cotton Mather

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : Printed first at Bostun [sic] in New-England, and reprinted at London for John Dunton ..., 1693

Descrizione fisica

[4], 98 [i.e. 106], [2] p

Soggetti

Witchcraft - New England

Massachusetts History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published by the special command of His Excellency the Govenour of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England."

Half-title page (p. [1]) reads: The tryals of several vvitches lately executed in New-England: published by the special command of the governour. On verso: Imprimatur. Decem. 23. 1692. Edmund Bohun.

"First London edition. A 2d edition, greatly abridged, was published, London, J. Dunton, 1693, 62 p., and a 3d edition, London, J. Dunton, 1693, 64 p."--NUC pre-1956 imprints.

Numerous errors in paging.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018