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CALEF, ROBERT; FOWLER, S. P., ED. More wonders of the invisible world; or, The wonders of the invisible world displayed. In five parts; Part I. An account of the sufferings of Margaret Rule, written by the Rev. Cotton Mather. Part II. Several letters to the author, &c.,
Boston, Printed in London, 1700, and in 1706. Rprtd. Salem, 1823. Boston, 1828. 1828, First Edition, Thus. Hard Cover, 12mo, 13.5 cm. 333 Pp. Ill.: Johnston, David Claypoole. Very Good/No Jacket.ΒΆ [Title Continued] 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. To which is added a postscript, relating to a book entitled "The life of Sir William Phips". Collected by Robert Calef, merchant, of Boston, in New-England. Fowler, S. P. ed. 12mo, 13.5 cm. 333 Pp. Calef contests the psychology and religious beliefs of those who joined in the witch hunt. He claims that they represent an impurity of belief which derives from pagan times and is not intrinsic to Christianity. Thus a study of the psychology of a mass witch hunt. Of interest also because the frontispiece, only found here, a satiric etching of a witches sabbath, has been identified by Malcolm Johnson as by D. C. Johnston, from a drawing in his possession. Later printing of Howes C 25, Unnoted by either Johnson or Tatham as D.C.J. not in Hamilton, RlIn, 3 Locs. Orig. calf, hinges cracked, but holding. Lightly foxed..
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