Magnalia Christi Americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of Nevv-England, from its first planting in the year 1620 unto the year of Our Lord 1698
Subtitle: in seven books ...
By: by the Reverend and learned Cotton Mather ...
Contributors: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress); John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst ...
Published: 1702
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Church history; Biography; History
Other titles: Magnalia Christi Americana; Ecclesiastical history of Nevv-England, from its first planting in the year 1620 unto the year of Our Lord 1698; Ecclesiastical history of New-England, from its first planting in the year 1620 unto the year of Our Lord 1698
Notes: Each of the seven books has a separate title page.

The [2] leaves of plates is a double plate.

Signatures: pi² A-C⁴ D², B-F⁴, 2A-2I⁴ 2K², 3A-4G⁴, 4A-4M⁴ 4N², 5A-5M⁴ 5N², 6A-6L⁴ 6M1, 7A-7P⁴ [par]1.

Errata: p. 118, 12th group of paging.

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [3-4] in front, [2] p. at end.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 452

ESTC T79039

LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's, initialled by him at 2I and 3T. Misbound: one of the 2 leaves of advertisements is bound between A4 and B1 in front.
Table of contents: title: (from title page): I. Antiquities, in seven chapters. With an appendix; title: II. Containing the lives of the governours, and names of the magistrates of New-England, in thirteen chapters. With an appendix; title: III. The lives of sixty famous divines, by whose ministry the churches of New-England have been planted and continued; title: IV. An account of the University of Cambridge in New-England, in two parts. The first contains the laws, the benefactors, and vicissitudes of Harvard College, with remarks upon it. The second part contains the lives of some eminent persons educated in it; title: V. Acts and monuments of the faith and order in the churches of New-England, passed in their synods, with historical remarks upon those venerable assemblies, and a great variety of church-cases occurring and resolved by the synods of those churches, in four parts; title: VI. A faithful record of many illustrious, wonderful providences, both of mercies and judgments, on divers persons in New-England, in eight chapters; title: VII. The wars of the Lord : being a history of the manifold afflictions and disturbances of the churches in New-England, from their various adversaries, and the wonderful methods and mercies of God in their deliverance, in six chapters. To which is subjoined an appendix of remarkable occurrences which New-England had in the wars with the Indian salvages [sic], from the year 1688 to the year 1698.