Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 326

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(WITCHCRAFT.) Calef, Robert. More Wonders of the Invisible World. 12mo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; foxing and browning, dampstaining on a few interior leaves, inked number on verso of title page; early owner's inscription on front free endpaper, perforated library stamp on flyleaf. With undated publisher's ad leaf. Salem, MA, 1796 [1797]

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first american edition. The publication of the first edition in London in 1700 "caused a great sensation in Boston, for it not only attacked the Mathers, but included a well-documented and devastating account of the Salem trials of 1692"--DAB. Evans 30149; Howes C25; Sabin 9927.