The wonders of the invisible world
Subtitle: being an account of the tryals of several vvitches, lately excuted [!] in New-England: and of several remarkable curiosities therein occurring.
By: Together with, I. Observations upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devils. II. A short narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of witches in Swede-land, very much resembling, and so far explaining, that under which New-England has laboured. III. Some councels directing a due improvement of the terrible things lately done by the unusual and amazing range of evil-spirits in New-England. IV. A brief discourse upon those temptations which are the more ordinary devices of Satan. By Cotton Mather. Published by the special command of his excellency the govenour [!] of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.
Publisher: Printed first, at Bostun [!] in New-England; and reprinted at London, for John Dunton
Published: 1693
Place of publication: [Boston; London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: Witchcraft -- New England -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Paging irregular. The last leaf sig. [R²] contains advertisement of "books lately printed for John Dunton".
Typography and style of head-lines vary.
Recto of first prelim. leaf half-title: The tryals of several witches, lately executed in New-England: published by the special command of the Governour. On verso: Imprimatur. Decem. 23. 1692. Edmund Bohun.
The author's defence, p. [1-2] [Letter from William Stoughton, p. [3]; prefatory note by Mather, p. [4]] Enchantments encounter'd, p. 5-[17] A discourse on the wonders of the invisible world; uttered (in part) on August 4, 1692: p. 2-16, 33-80, 41-56, 89-98.
First London edition. A 2d edition, greatly abridged, was published, London, J. Dunton, 1693, 62 p., and a 3d edition, London, J. Dunton, 1693, 64 p.
Holmes 454-B.