1831 · Niagara
by Bush, George, Rev
Niagara: Henry Chapman, publisher - Samuel Heron, printer, 1831. 8vo, pp. 121 [i.e. 112]; wrappers perished; small hole in the title page not affecting any letterpress, and with a few chips at the fore-edge; all else very good. A New York edition published by Harper & Bros. preceded this by a year. This is the author's first book and the first American biography of Islam's founder, Mahommed. Bush, a graduate of Dartmouth and a student of theology at Princeton, was a Presbyterian missionary and later a professor of Hebrew and oriental literature at New York University. In 1845 he embraced Swedenborgianism and went on to write many defenses of his new (truncated)