The history of King Philip's war / by the Rev. Increase Mather, D.D. Also, a history of the same war, by the Rev. Cotton Mather, D.D. To which are added an introduction and notes, by Samuel G. Drake ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.

Contributor:

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.

Drake, Samuel G., 1798-1875, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mather family.

King Philip's War, 1675-1676.

Physical Description:

xxxii pages, 33 unnumbered pages-281 pages : frontispiece, portrait, folded genealogical tables ; 22 x 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Printed for the editor, 1862.

Notes:

With reprint of t.p. of first English edition: A brief history of the war with the Indians in New-Englannd. From June 24, 1675, (when the first Englishman was murdered by the Indians) to August 12, 1676, when Philip, alias Metacomet, the principal author and beginner of the war was slain ... By Increase Mather ... London, Printed for Richard Chiswell ... 1676.

The Appendix contains letters by John Pynchon, Samuell Mosley, and others, "now first printed". cf. Sabin, Bibl. amer., also a list of men who served under Captian Turner.

Genealogical table of the Mather family.

"Two hundred and sixty-one copies printed, of which eleven are on large paper."--Sabin, Bibl. amer.

"A history of the same war, by the Rev. Cotton Mather", is abridged from his Magnalia-Christi americana, book 7, and printed in smaller type as "a sort of running commentary" on the work of Increase Mather. cf. Pref. by the editor.

OCLC:

1165742