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Lot 56
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Byfield, Nathaniel

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Description

  • An account of the late revolution in New-England. Together with the Declaration of the gentlemen, merchants, and inhabitants of Boston, and the country adjacent... London: Ric. Chiswell, 1689
  • paper, ink, leather
4to (203 x 148 mm). Hole in text repaired on page 19 supplying 7 letters. Nineteenth-century paneled calf, gilt.

Literature

Wing B6379; Church 708; Sabin 9708

Catalogue Note

first edition of the the first Andros tract, a key work in the history of new England.

Sir Edmond Andros, a colonial governor of surprising longevity, governed New York, the newly established Dominion of New-England and later Virginia. His success was varied, but his connections to royalty along with his military background kept him afloat. His reputation among the Puritans of New England, however, was poor. By field, an early settler of Rhode Island, here reports on the colonists' view of the toppling of the Andros government (of the Dominion of New-England) in the Boston uprising of April 1689. The final page of the book reprints the letter demanding his surrender. Increase Mather, one of the leaders of the return to Charter government, contributes his Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston (pp. 7–19), which outlines all the injustices of Andros and his supporters.