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Nevv Englands first fruits : in respect, first of the conversion of some, conviction of divers, preparation of sundry of the Indians, 2. of the progresse of learning in the colledge at Cambridge in Massacusets Bay : with divers other speciall matters concerning the country.

Accession number
PML 7987
Published
London : Printed by R. O. and G. D. for Henry Overton ..., 1643.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
16ff - the last a blank, lacking. Title, lf; text 11 pp. with errors in pagination; ff 12-26 account of the founding and a description of Harvard College.
First ed. No. 1 of Eliot's Indian tracts.
The first of a series of 11 pamphlets often known as the "Eliot tracts," issued by persons in England interested in the work of converting the New England Indians. Later numbers were published by the Corporation for propagation of the gospel among the heathen natives of New England, incorporated 1649.
Description
[2], 26 p.
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Sprinkled calf; in red paper case by Duprez Lahey.
Classification
Department