Swedenborg (Emanuel) De nova Hierosolyma et ejus Doctrina Coelesti: ex Auditis e Coelo, first edition, woodcut device on title and ornaments, errata leaf at end, light water-staining to lower outer corner of D & E signatures, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, rubbed and slightly scuffed, old gilt shelf-no. to head of spine, [Hyde 1210], 4to, [Printed by John Lewis], 1758.

⁂ Swedenborg's vision of a new church based on faith, charity and the unification of existing protestant churches. Fifteen years after his death his ideas were realised in the establishment of the New Church or Church of the New Jerusalem in 1787, with its emphasis on missionary work.