1864 APOCALYPTIC VISIONS. Vision in Verse. American, Abolitionism, and Eschaton. Signed.

Very rare work in the Millennialist vein, demonstrating the march of time from Creation up through the periodization of sacred history, culminating with American history, the freedom of the slaves [notably, issued shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation]. The author writes in a way that exhibits the world's sovereign march through time as occurring in distinct epochs or dispensations and sees the modern era as "the last days" before the Millennium and the present moment in America as a signal part of that story.  Exceptionally scarce with no copies in the trade and not a solitary example in the auction record.  Born in 1824 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the author, R. F. Fuller, grew up in a highly educated and politically active family, with his sister Margaret Fuller becoming a renowned social activist and writer and one of his brother's an abolitionist chaplain during the Civil War.  Practicing law in Boston, with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850, Fuller and othe