[Rarebooks] FS: Thomas Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts (2 Vols.)

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Ezra from Aardvark offers a Third Printing of Thomas Hutchinson’s two-volume History of Massachusetts.



Hutchinson, Thomas. THE HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS, FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT THEREOF IN 1628, UNTIL THE YEAR 1750 (2 VOLUMES). Salem, Massachusetts: Vol. I Printed by Thomas C. Cushing; Vol. II Printed by Manning and Loring:
[Both] for Thomas and Andrews, No. 45, Newbury-Street, Boston., 1795. Third Edition. 2 volumes. 

Matching half calf over catspaw marbled boards, ruled in blind. Boards detached. Six compartments to spine, ruled in gilt. Second compartments read “ istory / of / Massachusetts; third compartments bear the gilt volume number in arabic numerals (1 & 2); Fourth compartments read, respectively: “Hutchinson / 1628-1690" and "Hutchinson/1691-1750". Spine leather shows several small tears, but largely intact. Text printed on thick, laid bond, with only occasional spotting, two small, inconsequential margin-tears (pp. 224 and 463 in Volume 1) and about twenty-eight (total) pages with foxing in Volume 2, but with text entirely readable without much effort. Otherwise clean copy.

Fascinating section on Witchcraft (pp. 22-64).

Text to Volume 1, 429 pp., followed by a 48 pp. Appendix consisting of 21 parts, some of which comprise: royal letters and decrees; proposals about voting rights; an argument against Democracy (Democracy I do not conceyve that ever God did ordeyne as a fit government eyther for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?..." -- No. III, Mr. Cotton, to Lord Say); a Commission for Regulating Plantations; General Courts Address; a list of the Theses of the first Class of Graduates at Harvard College in 1651; a copy of the Determination of Arbitrators for Settling the Line Between New-Haven and the Dutch, in 1650; a Petition to the Parliament concerning trade in the Carribean; Letter to Oliver Cromwell from the General Court of Massachusetts; an Address to Mr. Cromwell; a Letter from the Government of the Colony of Rhode Island, concerning the Quakers, etc. etc. Appendix followed by an 8 pp. index.

Text to Volume 2, 403 pp. plus 44 pp. Appendix, consisting of two parts: 1) "A Summary of the Affairs of the Colony of New Plymouth..." and 2) a 24 pp. "Examination of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson, at the court at Newtown". Hutchinson (1591-1643) was a gifted spiritual leader who preached that entrance into heaven was not dependent upon sin, but upon one's behavior, and that anyone could directly petition God. An early feminist, she clashed with and threatened the foundational tenets of the Puritan faith.

NOTE: Hutchinson’s A third-volume of this well-known history, edited by his grandson, was posthumously issued a half-century after the first two volumes.It was said to have only been issued in a print run of 500 copies. This two-volume set does NOT contain this scarce third volume, but for now, is available as a separate inventory item.

'He had access to many documents which have since perished. The third volume has the most interest. Exiled with his fortune confiscated, his sons ruined, his daughters dying broken-hearted, he lived a pensioner until he sank into his welcome grave.’-Larned. 

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