1727 SIGNED Cotton Mather HOR-HAGIDGAD Bible American

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1727 Cotton Mather, John Webb, Thomas Foxcroft, Samuel Checkley. [Four First-Edition Sermons] [Mrs. William Waldron's Signed Copy] "HOR-HAGIDGAD, AN ESSAY ON THE HAPPY DEPARTURE OCCASIONED BY THE DECEASE OF THE VALUABLE MR. WILLIAM WALDRON, LATE PASTOR OF ONE OF THE CHURCHES IN BOSTON, WHO DEPARTED SEPT 11, 1727." Boston: Printed for S. Garrish, S. Kneeland, N. Belknap and B. Love, 1727. Octavo, with its Original Blindstamped Colonial Full Calf Leather Binding and Hinges! Binding is Tight and Sound! First Book Title page, first page of dedication and pg 21 of Mather's Sermon torn with loss of bottom half. containing 28pp. ....... The Second Book by John Webb is Complete with 22 pp. and its Title page Dated 1727. ....... The Third Book by Thomas Foxcroft has [xx] 47pp and is Complete with Half-Title and Title Page Dated 1727. one page in dedication with tear and loss of a few letters, first page of text is torn on right margin with loss of a few words. ....... The Fourth and Last Book by Samuel Checkley is Complete with 18 pp. IT IS SIGNED ON THE TOP OF THE TITLE PAGE BY "MRS. WILLIAM WALDRON." (The wife of the man that all 4 Sermons are about!!!) The Appendix in rear is lacking one pg. AN INCREDIBLY RARE FIRST EDITION COLLECTION OF FOUR SERMONS ON THE DEATH OF THE REVEREND WILLIAM WALDRON, OWNED AND SIGNED BY HIS WIDOW MRS. WILLIAM WALDRON! Cotton Mather Was Famous for his Writings, especially his History of New-England "Magnalia Christi Americana, and for having been at the Salem Witchcraft Trials. His Works are Non-Existent on the market. This Signed First-Edition Collection of Four Rare Sermons is the Rarest of the Rare!


COTTON MATHER (1663-1728), American Puritan clergyman and writer, b. Boston, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1678; M.A., 1681); son of Increase Mather and grandson of Richard Mather and of John Cotton. He was ordained (1685) and became a colleague of his father at North Church, Boston, serving as pastor in his father's absences and after his father's death (1723). It was principally by his indefatigable writing that he became one of the most celebrated of all New England Puritan ministers. He was a scholar of parts, working industriously to gather a library and volubly setting forth what he learned. Thus his Magnalia Christi Americana (1702) is a miscellany of materials on the ecclesiastical history of New England, vaguely intended to show how the history of Massachusetts demonstrated the working of God's will. His theological writings, now largely forgotten, had great influence in his time. He was a power in the state as well as in the church, was a leader in the revolt against the rule of Sir Edmund Andros and an adviser in Sir William Phips's government. Today he is generally pictured unsympathetically as the archetype of the narrow, intolerant, severe Puritan, and his part in the Salem witch trials in 1692 is often recalled. Although he did not approve of all the trials, he had helped to stir up the wave of hysterical fear by his Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft and Possessions (1689). Later he further pursued his inquiries into satanic possession with Wonders of the Invisible World (1693, new ed. 1956), which was sharply answered by Robert Calef . Even Mather's benevolence; expressed in his actions and reflected in his writings, as in Essays to Do Good (1710) had a core of smugness. Yet he helped to forward learning and education and to make New England a cultural center. He was disappointed in his hopes of being president of Harvard but was one of the moving spirits in the founding of Yale. He was deeply interested in science and was the first native-born American to be a fellow of the Royal Society. He persuaded Zabdiel Boylston to inoculate against smallpox and supported the unpopular inoculation even when his life was threatened.