Lot 45
Americana.- Mather (Increase) The Mystery of Israel's Salvation, Explained and Applyed: or, A Discourse Concerning the General Conversion of the Israelitish Nation, first edition, Printed for John Allen, 1669.
Hammer Price: £3,000
Description
Americana.- Mather (Increase) The Mystery of Israel's Salvation, Explained and Applyed: or, A Discourse Concerning the General Conversion of the Israelitish Nation, first edition, foxed and browned, extensive early ink annotations to rear endpapers, contemporary sheep, worn, [ESTC R3981; Wing M1230], 8vo, Printed for John Allen, 1669.
⁂ Increase Mather's first book, this copy a re-issue with with title page (A1) cancelled and replaced by second title page (c8r), of Wing M1230A.
Rare at auction, the last copy, with both title-pages present, sold for $24,000 earlier this year. As Mather bibliographer T.J. Holmes notes, while this is not the earliest of Increase's printed writings, it is the first complete book from his pen, and includes his views on the millennium. It also contains prefaces by John Davenport and William Hook (his associate at New Haven) and by William Greenhill, the prominent English Puritan.
Provenance: Spurgeon's College (ink stamp to title and library stickers and stamp to front pastedown).
Description
Americana.- Mather (Increase) The Mystery of Israel's Salvation, Explained and Applyed: or, A Discourse Concerning the General Conversion of the Israelitish Nation, first edition, foxed and browned, extensive early ink annotations to rear endpapers, contemporary sheep, worn, [ESTC R3981; Wing M1230], 8vo, Printed for John Allen, 1669.
⁂ Increase Mather's first book, this copy a re-issue with with title page (A1) cancelled and replaced by second title page (c8r), of Wing M1230A.
Rare at auction, the last copy, with both title-pages present, sold for $24,000 earlier this year. As Mather bibliographer T.J. Holmes notes, while this is not the earliest of Increase's printed writings, it is the first complete book from his pen, and includes his views on the millennium. It also contains prefaces by John Davenport and William Hook (his associate at New Haven) and by William Greenhill, the prominent English Puritan.
Provenance: Spurgeon's College (ink stamp to title and library stickers and stamp to front pastedown).
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