[Catholic Church] An interpretation of the number 666. Wherein, not onely the manner, how this number ought to be interpreted, is clearely proved and demonstrated: but it is also shewed, yt [sic] this number is an exquisite and perfect character, truly, exactly, and essentially describing that state of goverment, to wch [sic] all other notes of Antichrist doe agree. With all knowne objections, solidly, and fully answeared, yt [sic] can be materially made against i [Earls of Macclesfield copy]
Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1642. First Edition. Half-Calf. First Edition one of the most curious and fascinating books of the seventeenth century, Potter’s treatise on the Number of the Beast. 4to: [16],214,[2]pp, with copper-engraved title page by W. Marshall, showing numerical manifestations of ‘666’ and their supposed connections to..... more