Historia Quakeriana, sive de vulgo dictis Quakeris, ab ortu illorum usque ad recens natum schisma, libri III. In quibus praesertim agitur de ipsorum praecipuis antecessoribus, & dogmatis (ut & similibus placitis aliorum hoc tempore) factisque, ac casibus, memorabilibus

First edition of this particularly engaging monograph, written by the Dutch pastor Gerard Croese (1642–1710), and translated into English as early as 1696 (though never into French).

A few minor spots of foxing.

Full green vellum binding, the spine faded and tooled with small gilt ornaments, the title-piece largely lost leaving the spine without lettering, edges sprinkled green, a contemporary binding.

Partly informed by letters and documents supplied by William Sewel (1653–1720, himself the author in 1717 of an excellent Histori van de Opkompste, Aanwas en Voortgang der Christenen bekend by den naam van Quakers), it offers an account of the movement at a particularly significant moment in its history, marked both by a certain easing of persecution in Great Britain (the Toleration Act of 1689) and by emigration to the United States.

Book I concerns the life and work of George Fox, while Books II and III are devoted to William Penn.