Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 2,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
"PROBABLY THE BEST KNOWN BOOK OF COLONIAL TIMES"--GROLIER 100 MATHER, COTTON. Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England. Folding map, linen-backed, with left half made up in facsimile. 7 books in one volume, paginated separately with composite title as issued. [30], map, 38, [1], 75, [1], 238, [1], 128-222, 100, 88, 118, [4] pages. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn at extremities; first signature A bound incorrectly after D (per Church and Holmes), minor marginal annotations, dampstaining affecting upper inner quarter of first 3 books, leaves 6L2 and 6L3 with smaller margins apparently taken from another copy; modern bookplate of Richard Gerry Durnin tipped in on front pastedown. Following the text are both undated Thomas Parkhurst ad pages as described by Church; the first out of register and trimmed, the other worn and extended at the inner margin, both with slight loss of text; lacks errata leaves, which were printed later in Boston. London, 1702

Additional Details

first edition. A nice wide-margined copy, trimmed only to 319 mm. "Indispensible to the student of American history"--Church 806. Grolier Hundred 6, Holmes's Cotton Mather 213A, Howes M391, Sabin 46392, Streeter sale II:658.