Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 37v
Notes:
Du Simitière note: "& published in Philad about years ago. it is an unintelligible jargon of mystical notions about the revelations & a copper plate of the planets &c unintelligible it is printed with several sorts of Types & contains 282 pag. 8o besides the introduction of 52 pages."
John Ingham, The little book open. A prophecy: or, Prophetical dissertation. Predicting and declaring the coming of the expected redeemer, in the character of Lord and King; the setting up of a national theocracy, in the calling of the Jews, and redemption of the Gentile Church. Part I. Consisting of an astro-theological unfolding of certain formerly obscure, but highly-interesting and capital points of doctrine. Adapted to the present crisis of affairs By J--- I-----. (Philadelphia: Printed for the author [by William Dunlap], 1763)
The donor, Charles Cist (1738-1805), was a Philadelphia printer. He was born in in St. Petersburg, Russia (birth name Thiel) and emigrated to America in 1769, settling in Philadelphia in 1773.
Title Information:
The little book open. A prophecy: or, Prophetical dissertation. Predicting and declaring the coming of the expected redeemer, in the character of Lord and King; the setting up of a national theocracy, in the calling of the Jews, and redemption of the Gentile Church. Part I. Consisting of an astro-theological unfolding of certain formerly obscure, but highly-interesting and capital points of doctrine. Adapted to the present crisis of affairs By J--- I-----
Imprint Information:
Philadelphia: Printed for the author [by William Dunlap], 1763
