Emmanuel SWEDENBORG
De la Nouvelle Jérusalem et de sa doctrine céleste ; d'après ce qu'on entendu au ciel. Précédé d'une breve dissertation touchant le nouveau ciel et la nouvelle terre
Imprimé et vendu par R. Hawes|Londres 1782|12.50 x 21.70 cm|relié
The rare French first edition, following the first published in London, in Latin, in 1758.
Contemporary full blonde calf binding, marbled and glazed, smooth spine decorated with grotesque ornaments, red morocco title label, upper joint cracked at head for 8 cm, lower joint cracked at head and foot.
Although this work is the most famous by its author, due to its title which several churches have taken as their symbolic name, it is not the first of its kind and is actually a condensed version of the Arcana Coelestia, but whereas the Arcana is an exegesis of Genesis, The New Jerusalem is one of verses from the Apocalypse of Saint John, in which Swedenborg, as in his other works, deliv
Contemporary full blonde calf binding, marbled and glazed, smooth spine decorated with grotesque ornaments, red morocco title label, upper joint cracked at head for 8 cm, lower joint cracked at head and foot.
Although this work is the most famous by its author, due to its title which several churches have taken as their symbolic name, it is not the first of its kind and is actually a condensed version of the Arcana Coelestia, but whereas the Arcana is an exegesis of Genesis, The New Jerusalem is one of verses from the Apocalypse of Saint John, in which Swedenborg, as in his other works, deliv
€1,700
