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The History of the Rise, Increase and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers; with Several Remarkable Occurrences Intermixed. Written Originally in Low-Dutch, and also Translated into English, William Sewell, The Third Edition, Corrected. Printed and Sold by Isaac Collins, Burlington, New Jersey, 1774, 812 pp plus index, full leather, 12.75 x 8.25”, 4to. In fair condition. Boards are moderately worn with scuffing, red rot at edges and corners. Hinges cracking. Surface of leather is creasing, cracked and scratched. Top spine extreme is missing an inch of leather while bottom extreme is missing 2.5” inches. Errata on paste down with signature written in blue ink and old hand pencil signature of John Way, Landsdowne PA on flyleaf. Interior typically toned with light foxing. Fingersoiling on a few leaves and small ink stains.. free of markings otherwise. Binding remains tight and intact. A solid, complete copy. Please see photos. True Colonial America imprint! Willem Sewel (1654-1720) was a Dutch Quaker historian, of English background. Sewel spent 25 years on his major work, The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers . It was first published in Dutch, as Histori van de Opkompste, Aanwas en Voortgang der Christenen bekend by den naam van Quakers , Amsterdam, 1717 (another edition, 1742). The English edition (London, 1722), dedicated to George I, was largely undertaken to correct Historia Quakeriana (Amsterdam, 1695; English translation, London, 1696, by Gerard Croese , to whom Sewel had given letters and narratives from England). Sewel's own work was based on a mass of correspondence, George Fox’s Journal , and, for the public history, Lord Clarendon’s Rebellion and Edmund Ludlow’s Memoirs . It became an authority. RAREA1774DKLL