Author: CROESE Gerard - Croesius (1642 - 1710) :
Title: Historia Quakeriana, Sive De vulgo dictis Quakeris, Ab ortu illorum usque ad recens natum schisma, Libri III.
Description: .: Amsterdam, apud Henricum & Viduam Theodori Boom, 1695, in-8°, 19,5 x 9,5 cm, title printed in red and black and with woodcut printer's mark + (16) nn pp + 581 pp + (1)(errata), contemporary full vellum, manuscript title on spine, ex-library stamp on fly-leaf and on recto title (not on title), small wormhole in the last fly-leaf, vellum soiled, notwithstanding a very fine copy. Text in Latin, first edition of this history of the Quaker Society. Book I gives an account of George Fox, founder of the Society. Books II and III cover the actions of William Penn; George Keith and Robert Barclay are also mentioned. (Sabin 17583). .

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