1657 Walton Polyglot Bible Owned By Cotton Mather! Original 1600s leather binding! Red ruled throughout! Start Price USD 7,800.00 Current Price USD 7,800.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, July 22, 2008 End Time Tuesday, July 29, 2008 Location Chicago, Illinois See more about '1657 Walton Polyglot Bible Owned By Cotton Mather! ' Description Superb copy of The Walton Polyglot Bible. Printed in London: Thomas Roycroft, 1657   One of the four great polyglot (multi-language) Bibles ever printed! This volume is the first five books of Moses in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic and Persian all side by side. Red ruled by hand in the 1600's. Beautiful typography, a huge Bible approx 18" tall. This copy has an inscription of ownership by Cotton Mather, see image 3. Beautiful original leather binding! This volume has an additional 9 folio engraved plates of church architecture in England (engraved in 1700's printed in 1800's) tipped in the back. We have the other ten volumes bound as four books and can sell them for $1595 each book. Each having the original 1600's leather binding. If you have a feedback of less than 10 or less than 95% postive please contact us before bidding. Insured shipping required. We want you to be happy. Returns accepted if this item is not as described within seven days. Please email first for return instructions. Shipping/insurance not refundable. Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728). A.B. 1678 (Harvard College), A.M. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 (University of Glasgow), was a socially and politically influential Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. Cotton Mather was the son of influential minister Increase Mather. Mather was named after his grandfather, John Cotton. He attended Boston Latin School, and graduated from Harvard in 1678, at only 15 years of age. After completing his post-graduate work, he joined his father as assistant Pastor of Boston's original North Church (not to be confused with the Anglican/Episcopal Old North Church). It was not until his father's death, in 1723, that Mather assumed full responsibilities as Pastor at the Church. Author of more than 450 books and pamphlets, Cotton Mather's ubiquitous literary works made him one of the most influential religious leaders in America. Mather set the nation's "moral tone," and sounded the call for second and third generation Puritans, whose parents had left England for the New England colonies of North America to return to the theological roots of Puritanism. The most important of these, Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), is composed of 7 distinct books, many of which depict biographical and historical narratives which later American writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe would look to in describing the cultural significance of New England for later generations following the American Revolution. Mather's text thus was one of the more important documents in American history because it reflects a particular tradition of seeing and understanding the significance of place. Mather, as a Puritan thinker and social conservative, drew on the figurative language of the Bible to speak to present-day audiences. In particular, Mather's review of the American experiment sought to explain signs of his time and the types of individuals drawn to the colonies as predicting the success of the venture. From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history (for instance, linking the biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of eminent leaders such as John Eliot, John Winthrop, and his own father Increase Mather). The struggles of first, second and third-generation Puritans, both intellectual and physical, thus became elevated in the American way of thinking about its appointed place among other nations. The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis (such as the Salem witch trials which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians, French and other European settlers) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition (e.g., the American Renaissance of the late 18th and early 19th century literary, visual, and architectural movements which sought to capitalize on unique American identities).   Place a Bid!