The general history of the christian church, from her birth, to her final triumphant state in heaven, chiefly deduced from the apocalypse of st. john the apostle.
Dublin.
Printed by J. Mehain, 1790.
First Irish edition.
8vo.
xv [i.e.xvii], [7], 504pp. With a list of subscribers. Recent paper boards, lettered in black. Leaves browned and foxed.
The first Irish edition of vicar apostolic of the western district Charles Walmesley's (1722-1797) principal theological work, a commentary on the book of Revelation which secured his gloomy prophecies about the future on a foundation of Newtonian theory. First published in 1771, it went through ten editions in Britain and five more in America. The prophesied the end of Protestantism and particularly the destruction by God of the Anglican churches by 1825. It was popular with Irish Catholics in the years before the 1829 Emancipation.
ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (Franciscan House of Studies, Marsh's Library, and NLI); a a further two in North America (Harvard and NYPL).
ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (Franciscan House of Studies, Marsh's Library, and NLI); a a further two in North America (Harvard and NYPL).
ESTC T184367.
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref: 11992
