MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD - Calef, 1972 - SALEM WITCH TRIALS CRITICISM

MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD (1700)Book Details + Condition: University of Minnesota Press (Bainbridge, NY). Facsimile Edition, 1972. Very scarce. Hardcover measuring 7.5" x 6" with black cloth, gilt on orange background on spine. 156 pages. 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. Includes an Introduction by Chadwick Hansen. 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”. Calef offers devastating criticism of the Salem Witch trials, excoriating Cotton Mather and the other clergy who took part in them. A skeptic about the existence of witchcraft, Calef argued that the trial was unjust and suggested that Mather had influenced the judges and public opinion, lighting the