A History of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers from the year 1633 to 1700…

4to, later cloth, leather spine label, 484, [8] pp. Spine faded, corners showing, slight tears along spine, some white flecks to front cover, staining to title page and the following leaves, some foxing and soiling within; otherwise very good. The book is focused on the Quakers in Ireland, but contains some interesting American references. Ink ownership signature of James Brooke, Jr. is on the title page, which indicates at the bottom of that page that he died in 1767, at the age of thirty-seven. There are a number of other inscriptions by other family members, and at the front of the book are four pages notes by a descendant of Brooke and his family. The notes mention that James Brooke, Jr. was the first person to free a slave in Maryland. This seemed to anger his father, but in the end he saw the justice of the movement, and "that before his death he left all that belonged to him free".