The Life Of Mahomet: With Introductory Chapters On The Original Sources For The Biography Of Mahomet, And On The Pre-Islamite History Of Arabia; Volume 03 -

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Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, Jun, 1802. First American Edition. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's full sheep, red gilt-lettered spine label; viii,[13]-154,[2](ads)pp.; decorative head- and tail-pieces. Leather a bit rubbed along extremities, joints rubbed, with some mild chafing to leather; toning to endpapers, small coin-sized loss at bottom edge of front flyleaf (blank) else Very Good, internally sound and retaining original publisher's advertisements for Whitby's Discourses and Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws. First American edition of this oft-reprinted anti-Deist polemical tract by Prideaux (1648-1724), which originally appeared in 1697 under the title The true nature of imposture fully display'd in the life of Mahomet. The work was adapted and reprinted frequently, under various titles, throughout the 18th century. This is the first of at least two American editions under this title, though we note an earlier edition (Fairhaven, VT: 1798) under a slightly different title, apparently lacking the… Read More

Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, Junior, 1802. First American edition. viii, [13]-154, [2, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt rules. Signed on flyleaf and title, Samuel D. Ward. Very good plus. First American edition. viii, [13]-154, [2, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Polemical tract on the superiority of Christianity to the imposture of Mahomet, in which "the author has, on every suitable occasion, made such moral reflection as seemed naturally to arise out of the topics before him." Originally published: South Shields [England] : Printed by W. Hallgerth, jun. at the Minerva press, 1799. Shaw & Shoemaker 2535