Keith, George (1639-1716).

[Daulier Deslandes, André (1653-1715)] Les beautez de la Perse. Paris: Gervais Clouzier, 1673, first edition,[12], 133, [3]pp., illustration: engraved frontispiece, 7 engraved plates (most folding), woodcut initials and head-pieces, [Wilson p.54; Weber II, 349], lacking folding map, closed tear to one plate, some offsetting from plates, light spotting

Poyntz, John (1629/30-1712). The present prospect of the famous and fertile island of Tobago to the southward of Barbadoes. London: John Attwood, 1695, second edition, [6], 50pp., [Wing P3130; Sabin 64857], small tear to final leaf, spotting

Schultze, Benjamin (1689-1760). Zwanzigste Continuation des Berichts derer königlichen dänischen Missionarien in Ost-Indien. Halle: Orphanage Press, 1732, [14], 401-524pp., illustration: 2 folding engraved maps, engraved text illustration, woodcut headpieces and initials, a few pages slightly creased

4 works in one volume, 4to (192 x 138mm.), manuscript contents on front endpaper, binding: eighteenth-century half calf, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece

first edition of Keith's account of his travels in America. A Scottish Quaker, Keith first travelled to America in 1684 and there became the leader of the Christian Quakers, for which he was denounced by William Penn in 1692. He then returned to England where, in 1700, he was ordained into the Anglican Church. He returned to America to preach between 1702 and 1704.

For another work relating to the Danish Mission to the East Indies, see lot 3125.