1823 Scarce Book - SALEM WITCHCRAFT - Wonders of the Invisible World by Robert Calef.
Author: Robert Calef.
Title: More Wonders of the Invisible World or the Wonders of the Invisible World Displayed in Five Parts. I. An Account of the Sufferings of Margaret Rule, written by the Rev. Cotton Mather. II. Several Letters to the Author, &c. and his reply relating to Witchcraft. III. The Differences between the Inhabitants of Salem Village, and Mr. Parris, their Minister, in New England. IV. Letters of a Gentleman uninterested, endeavouring to prove the received opinions about Witchcraft to be Orthodox. With short essays to their answers. V. A short historical Account of Matters of Fact in that Affair.
Publisher: Salem, John D. and T. C. Cushing , Jr. for Cushing and Appleton, 1823.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7 " X 4.5 ".
Pages: i-xv, [1], 17-312 pages
Binding: Attractive and Good original publishers full calf leather binding (hinges rubbed and worn but tight, overall worn and scuffed - as shown, some small chips to the leather binding - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Good content (tight, toning, foxing and staining throughout, ink name of previous owner on upper margin of title page - as shown).
Estimate: (Scarce with practically no other copy available worldwide).
The book: Scarce edition in his original leather binding of (More) Wonders of the Invisible World -- Originally published in London in 1700, it was reprinted in Salem in 1796, and again in 1823. Complete with: Part I. An account of the sufferings of Margaret Rule, written by the Rev. Cotton Mather. Part II. Several Letters to the Author...and his reply relating to Witchcraft. Part III. The Differences between the Inhabitants of Salem Village, and Mr. Parris, their Minister, in New-England. Part IV. Letters of a Gentleman uninterested, endeavouring to prove the received opinions about Witchcraft to be orthodox. With short Essays to their answers. Part V. A short historical Account of matters of fact in that affair.
The author: Robert Calef (baptized 2 November 1648 – 13 April 1719) was a cloth merchant in colonial Boston. He was the author of More Wonders of the Invisible World, a book composed throughout the mid-1690s denouncing the recent Salem witch trials of 1692–1693 and particularly examining the influential role played by Cotton Mather.