The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mahomet. First American edition.
[Qur'an - English].
Published by Springfield, MA, Henry Brewer for Isaiah Thomas, Jun., October 1806.
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8vo. VIII, 524 pp. Contemporary full sheepskin with giltstamped spine title. First American edition of the Qur'an, produced by Isaiah Thomas, founder of the American Antiquarian Society and the largest and most important Massachusetts publishing house during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Thomas adapted a translation of the French orientalist André Du Ryer for the American market, with occasional notes, including Turkish traditions. Du Ryer had been the envoy of the French king at Alexandria and Constantinople in the 17th century. His translation was the best available, and was frequently reprinted and translated into other European languages throughout the 18th century. - Some browning and light foxing throughout. Small hole slightly affecting text to leaf Aa6; quires Ff and Gg transposed; a tear in leaf O4 professionally repaired. Provenance: From the collection of the Massachusetts businessman Henry E. Call (fl. 1860s) with his ink ownership to title-page and oval stamps to flyleaf; front pastedown has mid-19th century note of acquisition for $2.00 from E. P. Dutton's Boston bookshop, founded in 1852. - Shaw & Shoemaker 10684. Europe and the Arab World 32. OCLC 3548445. Not in Chauvin. Seller Inventory # 56583
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Publisher: Springfield, MA, Henry Brewer for Isaiah Thomas, Jun., October 1806.
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The Koran commonly called the Alcoran of Mahomet. Translated from the Original Arabick into French, By the Sieur de Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and the Resident for the French at Alexandria. The whole now faithfully translated into English. First American edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First. THE FIRST AMERICAN QURAN. Springfield (Massachusetts): printed by Henry Brewer for Isaiah Thomas, Jun., Thomas & Whipple (Newburyport) and Thomas & Tappan (Portsmouth); October-1806. Octavo (8 1/8" x 4 13/16", 206mm x 123mm). [Full collation available.] Bound in contemporary sheep. On the spine, six panels. Title gilt to green sheep in the second panel. All edges of the text-block sprinkled blue. Starting at the head and tail, with some chips along the joints. A little skinning, and bumped corners. Foxed and tanned, mostly quite mildly but with passages moderate (quires R-T, Y and Aa). Ink gift inscription to the title-page: "A. Shelly/ from his friend/ E. Bingham/ 9 July '42" and a graphite gift inscription to p. iii (the first page of the preface): "Elizabeth S. Clark Jan 26th 1919/ from/ Grandmother". In Islam, the "people of the book" refers to those to whom divine revelation was made in written form; primarily this refers to Jews and Christians (in casual usage, this sometimes includes Muslims themselves). First printings of various sacred texts -- "bible" coming from the Greek ??????, "book" -- whether the Old Testament/Torah/Pentateuch/Septuagint or the New Testament, are among the great landmarks of the intellectual history of nations. The first bible printed in America -- the Eliot "Indian bible" (New Testament: 1661, full text: 1663) -- sells at auction for as much as $275,000, and a single leaf of the 1455 Gutenberg bible can sell at auction for well in excess of $100,000. The Koran (also Romanized Quran or Qur'an; "al" is the definite article in Arabic, and so "the Alcoran" is redundant) has its roots in the VIIc and the revelation of divine wisdom via the angel Gabriel. The text (first printed in 1538, traditionally copied scribally) is itself a holy object. Thus the present volume -- the first Quran published in America -- is both conceptually and literally important. The first translation of the Arabic text into English came via Alexander Ross's translation of André du Ryer's French translation (the first into any European language except Latin) published 1647; the present text is his, introduced (skeptically) by the publisher, Isaiah Thomas. Nevertheless, the Founding Fathers (John Adams's example of this edition held at the Boston Public Library, Thomas Jefferson's (more scholarly translation by Sale) at the Library of Congress) read the text with great interest. The marks of ownership indicate the book being in at least four sets of hands -- E. Bingham, who gave the volume to his or her friend A. Shelly on the 9th of July 1842; Elizabeth S. Clark and her grandmother, who gave it to her on the 29th of January 1919 -- and yet none is absolutely identifiable. Given the complex relationship between Americans and the Quran, it is nonetheless notable that it should be given as a gift between friends, as well as to a young woman from her grandmother. Shaw & Shoemaker, Early American Imprints II.10684. Seller Inventory # JLR0730
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