(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT) Sewall Samuel Phaenomena quaedam Ap

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HIS GREATEST WORK (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Sewall, Samuel. Phaenomena quaedam Apocalyptica Ad Aspectum Novi Orbis configurata . . . The Second Edition. [1], [6], 64, 24 pages. Small folio, later 1/2 calf, minor rubbing; head of title page torn with loss to border, title browned and stained, second signature detached, else minor browning and dampstaining; 19th-century owner's ink inscription on title and first leaf. Boston: B. Green, 1727

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Sewall's classic history of New England and interpretation of the Book of Revelation in which he argues that the Indians were descendants of a lost tribe of Israel and that the New World would prove to be a New Jerusalem. The First Edition was issued in 1697, but this second edition includes Samuel Willard's The Fountain Opened: or, The Admirable Blessings plentifully to be Dispensed at the National Conversion of the Jews bound in the rear. This copy without the additional leaf of verses found in some. "Whoever gets beyond the tough title of this book will find in it a mine of New England history. With the exception of Nathaniel Morton's New England's Memorial, it is perhaps the most important historical work written and printed in New England"--Church 769 (1697 edition); Evans 2959; Sabin 79444; Rosenbach 25.