John wilder (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Ratna, Juliman (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 1967, 2nd Edition, book, binding and text in very good condition, no DJ, blue cloth binding with gilt and red title on spine cover, tight and square no damage, text with some underlining and marginalia, small name of PO on paste down fep.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: None Provided. Biderectional text, 51 pp in English, 8 pp. in Urdu. 12mo, stapled binding in peach wraps. Quite worn and handsoiled, wrappers loose and detached, annotated in pen and pencil. Exceedingly scarce. Unrecorded in OCLC.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 12mo. (14.5 x 8.5 cm). pp.171. Contemporary sheep, spine with four gilt rules. Old ownership inscription of 'G Freeman' to front free endpaper; embossed stamp of 'F.M. O'Brien, Bookseller New and Antiquarian, Portland Maine' to final blank. Some light spotting and browning throughout, title-page with small tear to bottom margin and small perforation just under the name 'Mahomet', marginal loss affecting text to first page, generally a very good unsophisticated copy. 'The Life of Mahomet' was extracted from Gibbon's best known work, 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', to be published separately. At the time of publication printed works relating to Islam were rare, as its few practitioners in the United States had arrived as part of the slave trade and the practicing of Islam was forbidden on plantations, with nearly all slaves forced to convert to Christianity upon their arrival. Wilder (1780-1832) was a minor printer in central Massachusetts and later New Hampshire. The John Whiting (1760-1810), for whom the work was printed, was likely the Revolutionary War soldier and lieutenant colonel in the 4th U.S. Infantry.…