‎LEININGEN, AMALIA HEDWIG VON.‎
‎Das Grosse Geheimnis Der Offenbahrung Jesu Christi in uns Welches in aller Menschen Hertzen verborgen liegt und wodurch sie alle werden gerichtet werden laut des Evangelii - [A MYSTIC INTERPRETATION OF THE APOCALYPSE OF JOHN]‎

‎(No place nor printer), 1712. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, corners bumped and small tear to head of spine. Internally very nice and clean. (32), 716, 32 pp. + folded double-page title-page. ‎

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‎Rare first edition of Leiningen’s main work being an interpretation of the Apocalypse of John. The last book of the Bible had been removed from the preaching canon by Luther due to its interpretive difficulties, however, in pietistic circles, it became a central text precisely because of its speculative nature. Amalia von Leiningen (1684-1756) was convinced that she was living in the end times and awaited the Second Coming of the Lord, as prophesied in the Gospels and the Apocalypse.OCLC list no copies in the US. ‎