SEWALL, Samuel

The Diary of Samuel Sewall

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. Hardcover. Edited by Harvey Wish. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 189pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Tight, quite attractive first of this scholarly abridged edition of (to cite front jacket wrapper) "The Famous Contemporary Account of Life in Puritan New England" from the years 1673 to 1729. .

Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional seller

Book number: 39806

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Colonial Americana

THOMAS, M. HALSEY; SEWALL, SAMUEL.

The Diary of Samuel Sewall 1674-1729. Newly Edited from the Manuscript at the Massachusetts Historical Society by M. Halsey Thomas. Volume I. 1674-1708. Volume II. 1709-1729.

Med. 8vo; Vol. I. pp. xxxviii, 612; Vol. II. xiv, 613-1254; illustrated endpapers, portrait frontispieces, text with b/w. illustrations, chronology, genealogical appendix, list of published writings, index, both volumes uniformly bound in grey cloth, titles lettered in black on spines, housed in original illustrated slipcase, very good set. New York; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1973.

Time BooksellersProfessional seller

Book number: 125432

Keywords: American History Literature Biography Law Salem Witchcraft Trials