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Description
DECENNIUM LUCTUOSUM: A HISTORY OF REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES, IN THE LONG WAR, WHICH NEW ENGLAND HATH HAD WITH THE INDIAN SAVAGES, FROM THE YEAR 1688 TO THE YEAR 1698. FAITHFULLY COMPOSED AND IMPROVED.
Book Details + Condition: Garland Publishing, Inc (New York and London). First Edition by this publisher, 1978. From "The Garland Library of Narratives of North American Indian Captives" (Volume 3). Hardcover measuring 7.5" x 5.5". 255 pages with reproduction illustrations of the original work. Very scarce, facsimile reproduction of Cotton Mather's history of the North American Indian Wars in New England.
From the massive collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Firm binding; very light shelf wear; Parker's bookplate to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings.
