Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
[MATHER, COTTON]. Ratio Disciplinæ Fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A Faithful Account of the Discipline Professed and Practiced, in the Churches of New-England. 8vo, modern calf; with new endpapers and original blanks, "by Cotton Mather" inscribed on title page, manuscript number inscribed on verso of title page, foxing throughout, intermittent marginal wear, leaf Ee2 slightly defective with minute loss of text; inscriptions by early owners on front free endpaper and title page. Includes the introduction by Increase Mather and the table of contents. Boston: S. Gerrish, 1726

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first edition. "An important exposition of . . . Congregationalism that carefully reaffirms the principles of the Cambridge Platform"--Streeter II:672. Evans 2775; Sabin 46474.