Historical Memoirs Relating to the Housatonic Indians, by Rev. Samuel Hopkins (1693-1755) Boston, S. Kneeland, 1753.

 Historical Memoirs Relating to the Housatonic Indians, by Rev. Samuel Hopkins (1693-1755) Boston, S. Kneeland, 1753.

Hopkins, Samuel

New York: William Abbatt, 1911


[Fine Binding] 26 x 20 cm. Bound in fine 3/4 morocco over marbled boards.  Marbled end sheets. 198 p. Frontispiece, facsimile  Reprint of the 1753 Boston Edition.  Fine, facsimile of one of the rarest books on New England.  According to Streeter this book is "one of the foundation stones in the relation between the Whites and Indians in the 18th century." Streeter sale I: 679.   "A carefully prepared account of the mission work among the Stockbridge and Housatonic Indians" - Church 986 (both citing first edition).

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