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On the conversion of heathens

HOORNBEEK, Johannis.
De conversatione Indorum & gentilium. Libri duo. Accessit Ejusdem Vita ab amico edita.

Title printed in red and black.

Title printed in red and black.

Title printed in red and black.



Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius à Waesberge & the widow of Elizaeus Weterstraet, 1669. 4to. Modern half vellum, marbled boards, spine with red morocco title-label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. Title printed in red and black. (56, including last blank), 259, (13) pp.

Rare original and only edition of this important work on the conversion to the reformed protestant faith of the native peoples in the West- and East-Indies and other heathens in North and South America, Russia, Africa, China and Japan, by one of the most learned theologians of the Dutch seventeenth century, Prof. Johannes Hoornbeek (Horenbeek; 1617-1666). The work was posthumously edited and published by Hoornbeek's friend, the Leiden Professor in Philosophy David Stuart (d. 1669), who also added an extensive biography of Hoornbeek (p. (3-48)), still an important source of information for the life of Hoornbeek.
The authorship of Stuart is confirmed by a seventeenth-century note on the title stating that Stuart wrote this biography 'which was highly praised by the Utrecht Professor Andreas Essenius in the preface of his Miscellanea sacra (Utrecht 1677)'.

Good copy.- (Seventeenth-century note on title).
NNBW VIII, cols. 843-4; De Bie & Loosjes IV, p. 277-86; only one copy in the NCC (UL, A'dam-VU).

Related Subjects: Americana  China  India  Indochina  Indonesia  Japan  Mission  Protestantism  Religion 

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