That multitudes of demons should suddenly appear in New England was no ordinary judgment against God’s chosen people. “In Mather’s rendering, the Salem witchcraft trials become the focal point of a grand cosmic drama. “Of all the narratives” of the Salem witch trials, only Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World “articulates the official definition” of the proceedings, and is thus “the most important of the contemporary narratives for the historical observer” of them. Scarce second London edition, one of three published within a year of the first, of Mather’s theological interpretation of the Salem witch trials, “the most important of the contemporary narratives.” Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. Octavo, period-style plain tan wrappers pp. Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England… London: for John Dunton, 1693. “A PEOPLE OF GOD SETTLED IN THOSE WHICH WERE ONCE THE DEVIL’S TERRITORIES”: COTTON MATHER’S IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS, WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, 1693
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