The wonders of the invisible world : being an account of the tryals of several vvitches lately excuted [sic] in New-England, and of several remarkable curiosities therein occurring : together with, I. Observations upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devils, II. A short narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of witches in Swede-land, very much resembling, and so far explaining, that under which New-England has laboured, III. Some councels directing a due improvement of the terrible things lately done by the unusual and amazing range of evil-spirits in New-England, IV. A brief discourse upon those temptations which are the more ordinary devices of Satan / by Cotton Mather.

  • Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
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1693
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[London] : Printed first at Bostun [sic] in New-England, and reprinted at London for John Dunton ..., 1693.

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4 unnumbered pages, 98, that is, 106 pages, 2 unnumbered pages

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Wing M1174

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"Published by the special command of His Excellency the Govenour of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England."
Half-title page (p. [1]) reads: The tryals of several vvitches lately executed in New-England: published by the special command of the governour. On verso: Imprimatur. Decem. 23. 1692. Edmund Bohun.
"First London edition. A 2d edition, greatly abridged, was published, London, J. Dunton, 1693, 62 p., and a 3d edition, London, J. Dunton, 1693, 64 p."--NUC pre-1956 imprints.
Numerous errors in paging.
Reproduction of original in the British Library.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1096:19) s1999 miun s

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