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[WALMESLEY ( Charles ), FRS]. The general history of the christian church

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[WALMESLEY ( Charles ), FRS]. The general history of the christian church

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
[WALMESLEY ( Charles ), FRS]. 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. By Sig. Pastorini. Dublin : Printed by J. Mehain, No. 75, Aungier-Street, 1790FIRST IRISH EDITION, pp (2), xxv (i.e. xvii), (7), 504, including the (4)-page subscriber list, 8vo, recent boards : some light signs of use, but a very good copy. ESTC locates four copies : KLN, Dm, D / NN. Not in L, O or C. Walmesley (1722–97), vicar apostolic of the western district. The uncommon first Irish edition of his 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 Great Britain and five more were produced in America. Translations also appeared in Latin, French, German, and Italian, and were also reprinted. The book 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 Catholic Emancipation in 1829. His scientific attainments brought him into notice as an astronomer and mathematician. He was consulted by the British Government on the reform of the calendar and introduction of the "New Style" in 1750-52.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) ZACCARIA ( Francesco Antonio ), SJ. Anti-Febbronio … o sia apologia storico-polemica del primato del Papa … Edizione seconda notabilmente accresciuta. In Cesena, per Georgio Biasini, 1770. Pages (12), 499 : 444, (2) : xxxi, 628 : (4), 375, 4 vols, 8vo, slightly later half calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled spines, double lettering pieces, gilt : a very good to nice set.Zaccaria (1714-95), librarian at the court of Modena and later at Mantua. This extensive rebuttal to Febronianism, here somewhat enlarged, was first published at Pisaro in 1767. Febronianism, in some ways the German counterpart of Gallicanism, a movement against the claims, temporal especially, of the papacy, is named after Justinus Febronius, the pseudonym of J. N. von Hontheim.(2) GOETHE ( Johann W. von ). Faustus : the second part. From the German of Goethe, by John Anster … Longman, Green … , 1864. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, pages lxxxvii, 485, (3, blank), without the errata slip sometimes found, 8vo, original green cloth : just a little dull, but a sound (inside joints intact) and very good copy The first translation into English of any part of this poem was published by Anster, the eminent Irish barrister, native of Cork, in Blackwood's Magazine in 1820, though it was not until 1835 that he completed his translation of the first part, and that of the second part followed in a further 29 years. "Its high merits were at once recognised. Occasionally somewhat lacking in conciseness, it is throughout the translation of a poet by a poet." - DNB.(3) ERASMUS ( Desiderius ). Colloquia, cum notis selectis variorum, addito indice novo. Accurante Corn. Schrevelio. Lugd. Batav. et Roterod., ex officina Hackiana, 1664. With fine engraved title-page (cut to margin and neatly mounted), pp (12), 784, (20), 8vo, 19C half calf, gilt spine, with label, gilt : six leaves with neat repairs to blank margin (no text loss) and the binding, though still very strong, worn at headband : a very good copy.For centuries one of the most used Latin schoolbooks, discussing basic scholarly and moral issues, here with the extensive annotations of the great critic and philologist Cornelius Schrevelius (1608-1664.)(7)ENGLISH PRE 1801; RELIGION; THEOLOGY; ESCHATOLOGY; CESENA PRINTED; GERMAN LITERATURE; GOETHE; VERSE; TRANSLATIONS; LEYDEN PRINTED; ;