Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2621BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 18, 2012 11:00AM
Description:
Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)Coelestinus. A Conversation in Heaven Quickened and Assisted with Discoveries of Things in the Heavenly World. Boston: S. Kneeland for Nath. Belknap, 1723.
Octavo, first edition, in contemporary calf, front board detached, contents evenly toned.
The forward was written by the author's father, Increase Mather (1639-1723),just before his death in August of 1723. The dedication is to London's Thomas Hollis (1659-1731),a great friend and benefactor to the Harvard College Library in the eighteenth century.
Estimate $2,000-3,000
Collated, complete.