Coale Josiah (3 results)

Pamphlet (in boards). Condition: Good. Revised Edition. 20 pp. Modern paper over boards. Toned, early pagination in ink, assumed once in a tract volume, small hole to title (front margin), leaves closely cropped, a few minor stains. Third edition, being expanded. Coale was one of the earliest Quaker explorers of Pennsylvania and early missionary in the New World (according to the Papers of William Penn, Vol. 5, Coale was likely the first Quaker to touch Pennsylvania soil in 1658.) Coale was one of William Penn's intimate friends during his first years as a Quaker, the first secition of his "Song" written while he was "travelling in the Wilderness.on Long-Island". The last section comprises Coale's dying words, before which is a Testimony concerning Lodowick Muggleton - 'He is a Son of Darkness, and a Co-Worker with the Prince of the Bottomless-Pit.'.…

thumbed, single wormhole removing a few letters, pp. 20, 4to, nineteenth-century half maroon roan, rubbed, gilt lettering on spine all but illegible, early pagination in ink 243-261, no doubt indicating that this was once in a tract volume, but if so, on the evidence of the binding, not for well over a century, good. The first section, the Song of the Judgments, was 'written at the movings of the Spirit of the Lord, the Eighth day of the Thirrd Month, 1662 as I was travelling in the Wilderness, as without, on Long-Island, in America.' The last section comprises Coale's dying words, before which is a Testimony concerning Lodowick Muggleton - 'He is a Son of Darkness, and a Co-Worker with the Prince of the Bottomless-Pit.' The 1662 edition is known in 1 copy only: it was reprinted in 1663, before its present appearance, where there are additions. Josiah Coale was a Quaker missionary who traveled extensively in America. He preached in Maryland and Virginia before traveling through dangerous territory overland to New England. He returned to England, but a few years later made another trip to the West Indies. He was several times arrested in England. (Smith, J. Friends' books, 1.433; ESTC R26613).…

COALE, JOSIAH. The Books and Divers Epistles of the Faithful Servant of the Lord Josiah Coale. [London]: Printed in the year, 1671. 4to. 28, 33-104, 152, 269-343 [i.e., 344] p. Complete as issued. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and recornered, later (but old) endpapers. Modern bookplate. First edition. Pages 14 through 19 contain a testimony by William Penn, most likely written while Penn was in prison. The testimony expresses great love and admiration for Coale. Josiah Coale was one of Penn's intimate friends during Penn's first years as a Quaker. Coale had been one of the early missionaries to the New World and was likely the first Quaker to touch Pennsylvania soil in 1658 (Bronner & Fraser p. 131). The text, erratically paginated but complete and conforming to the other known copies, contains several different essays and testimonies, including "An Epistle to Friends in New-England," "To the Flock of God, Gather'd out of the World in the Province of Maryland," "To all People in Jamaica," &c. "The VVhore Unveiled" has a separate title page dated 1667. European Americana 671/82; Wing C4751; Bronner & Fraser (Penn) 13; Baer (Maryland) 68; JCB(3) III:215.…