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[1729 First-Edition] "THE LIFE OF THE VERY REVEREND AND LEARNED COTTON MATHER, D.D. & F.R.S. LATE PASTOR OF THE NORTH CHURCH IN BOSTON. WHO DIED, FEB. 13, 1727, 8." By Samuel Mather. Boston: Samuel Garrish. 1729. 8vo, 186pp. Original Colonial Boston full Calf binding with blindstamped centerpiece and Flowers at the corners, probably bound by Samuel Garrish. Front board detached but present. With Half Title and Title Pages Intact! no blanks. AN ULTRA-RARE 1729 FIRST-EDITION OF THE LIFE OF COTTON MATHER BY HIS SON, SAMUEL MATHER! IN ITS ORIGINAL COLONIAL LEATHER BINDING!


SAMUEL MATHER, Son of Cotton Mather and grandson of Increase Mather, clergyman, born in Boston, 30 October, 1706" died there, 27 June, 1785, was graduated at Harvard in 1723, and received the degree of D. D. from the same institution in 1773. In 1732, four years after his father's death, he was ordained as colleague pastor over the same church to which his father and his grandfather, Increase, had so long ministered. Differences arose in the congregation in 1742 relative to the subject of revivals, and a separate church was established under Mr. Mather in North Bennett street. He published "Life of Cotton Mather" (1729) : " Essay on Gratitude " (1732) ; "Apology for the Liberties of the Churches in New England" (1738);" America Known to the Ancients " (1773) ; "The Sacred Minister," a poem in blank verse (1773); and occasional sermons. He is buried, with his father and grandfather, in Copp's Hill cemetery, Boston.