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MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD: OR, THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, DISPLAY'D IN FIVE PARTS....
Calef, Robert:
London: Printed for Nath. Hillar..., 1700. [12],156pp. Small quarto. Modern blue polished calf, tooled in gilt. Faint ink stamp to verso of titlepage. Minor scattered foxing and toning. Very good. This well reasoned castigation of the proceedings of the courts in Massachusetts was written by Robert Calef, a Boston merchant, in response to Cotton Mather's WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, wherein Mather sets forth his account of the supposed cases of witchcraft in Massachusetts. Calef attacks Mather personally, as well as the hysteria engendered by the witch scare. The first copies of this book to reach Boston were supposedly burned, and it historically has been a.. more
Price: $17,500.00
Calef, Robert:
London: Printed for Nath. Hillar..., 1700. [12],156pp. Small quarto. Modern blue polished calf, tooled in gilt. Faint ink stamp to verso of titlepage. Minor scattered foxing and toning. Very good. This well reasoned castigation of the proceedings of the courts in Massachusetts was written by Robert Calef, a Boston merchant, in response to Cotton Mather's WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, wherein Mather sets forth his account of the supposed cases of witchcraft in Massachusetts. Calef attacks Mather personally, as well as the hysteria engendered by the witch scare. The first copies of this book to reach Boston were supposedly burned, and it historically has been a.. more
Price: $17,500.00
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![Book of the Month](/reeseco/images/items/350x500/WRCLIT62659.jpg "AUTOGRAPH FAIR COPY MANUSCRIPT OF "THE GIFT OUTRIGHT."")
AUTOGRAPH FAIR COPY MANUSCRIPT OF "THE GIFT OUTRIGHT."
Frost, Robert:
Ripton, VT. June 1954. One page, on recto only of 22 x 14 cm sheet. About fine. From the James S. Copley collection. Half morocco folding clamshell box. An autograph transcript of this sixteen-line poem, signed in full by Frost, with date and place of execution at the conclusion. One of Frost's most memorable poems from the years of WWII, beginning "The land was ours before we were the land ...." Though first published in book form in A WITNESS TREE (1942), it is perhaps most widely known for having been recited from memory by Frost on the occasion of John F. Kennedy's Inauguration.. more
Price: $5,500.00
Frost, Robert:
Ripton, VT. June 1954. One page, on recto only of 22 x 14 cm sheet. About fine. From the James S. Copley collection. Half morocco folding clamshell box. An autograph transcript of this sixteen-line poem, signed in full by Frost, with date and place of execution at the conclusion. One of Frost's most memorable poems from the years of WWII, beginning "The land was ours before we were the land ...." Though first published in book form in A WITNESS TREE (1942), it is perhaps most widely known for having been recited from memory by Frost on the occasion of John F. Kennedy's Inauguration.. more
Price: $5,500.00