Propagation of the gospel in the East
Subtitle: being an account of the success of two Danish missionaries, lately sent to the East-Indies, for the conversion of the heathens in Malabar : in several letters to their correspondents in Europe : containing a narrative of their voyage to the coast of Coromandel, their settlement at Tranquebar, the divinity and philosophy of the Malabarians, their language and manners, the impediments obstructing their conversion, the several methods taken by these missionaries, the wonderful providences attending them, and the progress they have already made : rendered into English from the high-Dutch ...
Contributors: Gründler, Johann Ernst, 1677-1720; Plütscho, Heinrich, 1676-1747.; Böhm, Anton Wilhelm, 1673-1722; Smart, William, of Gosport
Edition: The third edition.
Publisher: Printed and sold by Joseph Downing ...
Published: 1718
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Lutheran Church -- Missions.; Missions -- India.; Hinduism.; Letters -- 18th century.; Travel -- 18th century.; Malabar (India) -- Social life and customs.
Other titles: Propagation of the Gospel in the east : being an account of the progress made by some missionaries at Tranquebar.; Propagation of the Gospel in the east : being a collection of letters from the Protestant missionaries and other worthy persons in the East-Indies.
Notes: The Protestant missionaries = Bartholomew Ziegenbalg,  Johann Ernst Grü ndler, Heinrich Plütscho, and others.  Translated by Anton Wilhelm Böhm.  Cf. ESTC.

Letters from the Halle pietists in the Danish mission at Tranquebar; with an account of the press established there & the first printed books; also one letter from August Hermann Francke to Henry Newman, with an account of the Malabarians, their language and manners.

Each part has a variant title page.

Includes advertisements.

Part three omits the edition statement.

"To the reader" (vol. 3) signed: Anth. Will. Boehm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Fisher Knox copy: With the bookstamp of W. Smart [of Gosport].