![BYFIELD, Nathaniel (1653-1733). 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[hard] Chiswell, 1689.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01614_0023_000(102403).jpg?w=1)
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BYFIELD, Nathaniel (1653-1733). 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[hard] Chiswell, 1689.
4o (198 x 146 mm). 20 pages. Title within rule border. (A few minute marginal repairs.) Late nineteenth-century crimson crushed levant morocco gilt, covers with borders of gilt fillets, gilt spine, gilt inner dentelles, edges gilt. Provenance: Robert Hoe (bookplate); Anson Phelps Stokes (1838-1913, bookplate); The Rev. Anson Phelps-Stokes (bookplate).
THE FIRST ANDROS TRACT: THE VERY FINE HOE-PHELPS-STOKES COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. A highly significant work for the early history of New England, RECORDING ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN REBELLIONS AGAINST BRITISH AUTHORITY. In the spring of 1689, Sir Edmund Andros (1637-1714), the governor of Massachusetts appointed by Charles II, was overthrown as a result of his overbearing rule and attempt to tax the inhabitants; as there was no representative assembly, the colonists contended this measure was a violation of the Magna Charta. This pamphlet is intended to justify their rebellious act, and strongly states the colonists' loyalty to the British Crown. Following Byfield's text is a printing of Increase Mather's The Declaration of the Gentlemen (pp. 7-19). Page 20 prints the letter to Andros, signed in type by prominent Boston citizens, demanding the surrender of the government "otherwise we are assured they will endeavour the taking of the Fortification by storm, if any opposition be made." Alden & Landis 698/28; Church 708; Sabin 9708; Wing B-6379.
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THE FIRST ANDROS TRACT: THE VERY FINE HOE-PHELPS-STOKES COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. A highly significant work for the early history of New England, RECORDING ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN REBELLIONS AGAINST BRITISH AUTHORITY. In the spring of 1689, Sir Edmund Andros (1637-1714), the governor of Massachusetts appointed by Charles II, was overthrown as a result of his overbearing rule and attempt to tax the inhabitants; as there was no representative assembly, the colonists contended this measure was a violation of the Magna Charta. This pamphlet is intended to justify their rebellious act, and strongly states the colonists' loyalty to the British Crown. Following Byfield's text is a printing of Increase Mather's The Declaration of the Gentlemen (pp. 7-19). Page 20 prints the letter to Andros, signed in type by prominent Boston citizens, demanding the surrender of the government "otherwise we are assured they will endeavour the taking of the Fortification by storm, if any opposition be made." Alden & Landis 698/28; Church 708; Sabin 9708; Wing B-6379.