Books bought of ye colledge library, p C. Mather, [photostat copy], 1682.

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Books bought of ye colledge library, p C. Mather, [photostat copy], 1682.

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Two positive photostat copies of a two-page handwritten list of volumes purchased by Cotton Mather from the Harvard College Library in 1682, when Mather was nineteen. The titles are arranged by size (folio, quarto, octavo, etc.) and include the title and price of each volume. There are ninety-six titles of which 86 were theological in subject. The list offers evidence of some of the books held by the College in the 17th century.

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