REMARKABLE PROVIDENCES - Mather, 1890 - GHOSTS WITCHCRAFT MIRACLES SATAN DEVIL

REMARKABLE PROVIDENCES: ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE EARLIER DAYS OF AMERICAN COLONIZATION Book Details + Condition: Reeves and Turner (London). Early Edition, 1890. Hardcover measuring 7" x 5". 262 pages with advertisements to end. Includes frontis portrait of Increase Mather, as well as a reproduction of the original title page. An 1890 edition of Increase Mather's fact-finding mission on Witchcraft and supernatural phenomena that was allegedly plaguing the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1681 to 1684. The results were published in this work, first published in 1684. Very scarce 19th-century copy of the original with a preface by George Offor. Chapters include: - The Remarkable Sea-Deliverances- A Further Account of Remarkable Preservations- Concerning Remarkables About Thunder and Lightning- That There are Demons and Possessed Persons- Concerning Apparitions- Sudden Deaths- Concerning Things Preternatural Which Have Happened In New England- Of Remarkable Tempests in New England- And more. From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards; interior is clean and free of markings.