RARE 1845 Hell Opened Christians Giovanni Pinamonti Henry McGrath Philadelphia For Sale

First McGrath Edition (1845)**TITLE:** Hell Opened to Christians; To Caution Them From Entering Into It; Or, Considerations on the Infernal Pains, Proposed to Our Meditation to Avoid Them.

Father Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti, S.J.

Philadelphia

1845 (Confirmed by the internal Bishop\'s approval page dated Dec. 9th, 1845)

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**ITEM DESCRIPTION:**

Up for sale is a highly scarce, early American Catholic printing of Father Pinamonti\'s famous 17th-century Jesuit tract, published in Philadelphia by Henry McGrath in 1845. The book features a structural arrangement of seven daily meditations—one for each day of the week—designed to deter readers from mortal sin through stark, intense descriptions of hellfire.

**LITERARY IMPORTANCE:**

This text is famously known in modern literature as the exact source material used by Irish novelist James Joyce in *A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*. The terrifying sermons delivered to the protagonist Stephen Dedalus during his school retreat were directly adapted by Joyce from this specific tract.

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**CONDITION REPORT:**

[PLEASE UPDATE THIS SECTION BASED ON YOUR SPECIFIC COPY]:

- Binding: (e.g., Original brown cloth binding stained worn spotted.Chip and hole to spine. Structural integrity of the hinges is intact)

- Pages: Complete text block. Contains light foxing (brown spots)yellow pages typical of mid-19th-century American paper. No torn or missing pages.

- Markings: (there are old owner signatures or pencil markings on the endpapers).

3 x 4.5

Please see the  photos provided for a full look at the condition. Ships securely wrapped in a box with tracking. Feel free to message me with any questions!

This is the first printing of this specific edition produced by the Philadelphia publisher Henry McGrath. The internal approval page explicitly notes that the Bishop is authorizing a \"republication\" of the text.