A true account of the tryals, examinations, confessions, condemnations, and executions of divers witches, at Salem, in New-England
for their bewitching of sundry people and cattel to death, and doing other great mischiefs, to the ruine of many people about them. With the strange circumstances that attended their enchantments: and their conversation with devils, and other infernal spirits. In a letter to friend in London..
by Cotton Mather
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Signed and dated on page 8: Salem, 8th month, 1692. C.M.
Attributed to Cotton Mather by Sabin.
Holmes states that this work was not written by Cotton Mather but devised from his "Wonders of the invisible world" printed in London, 1693.
Dated 1692 by ESTC and Wing.
Dated 1693 by European Americana based on the publication of Mather's work.
Signatures: A⁴.
Title printed within single rule border.
See: Holmes, T.J. Cotton Mather, page 1133.
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 46563
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), M12A
Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, II: page 1437
European Americana, 693/174
English short title catalogue, R231912
Purchase; 1846; 0552.
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