MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD - Calef, 1823 - SALEM WITCH TRIALS CRITIQUES

MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD DISPLAYED, IN FIVE PARTSBook Details + Condition: Printed in Salem, by John D. and T.C. Cushing Jr for Cushing and Appleton (1823). Scarce edition in the original publisher’s full calf leather binding. Hardcover boards measuring 7.25” x 4.5”. Originally published in London in 1700, it was reprinted in Salem in 1796, and again in 1823 (this copy). The book relates an account of the circumstances surrounding the Witchcraft trials in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the actions of its leaders, especially those of the tremendously influential Mathers. In “More Wonders of the Invisible World”, Robert Calef, a Boston merchant who was present at the Salem Witch Trials, responds in fervent opposition to Puritan minister Cotton Mather’s “Wonders of the Invisible World”. From the title page:- Part I. An Account of the Sufferings of Margaret Rule, Written by the Rev. Cotton Mather.- Part II. Several Letters to the Author, &c. and his Reply relating to Witch