[AMERICANA]. [THOMAS, Isaiah (1749-1831), publisher]. -- DU RYER, André (c. 1580- d. 1660 or 1672), translator. The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mahomet. Springfield: Henry Brewer for Isaiah Thomas, October 1806.
8vo (208 x 121 mm). Full contemporary calf, dark olive leather lettering-piece gilt (recased with ends reinforced, few corners rubbed, later endpapers). (Title-page unevenly browned, also with small ink notation, browning and spotting throughout). Provenance: indecipherable contemporary ownership signature on title-page).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE KORAN, published by the firm Isaiah Thomas, the largest and most important publishing house in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Thomas adapted a translation of the French orientalist Du Ryer for the American market, with occasional notes, including Turkish traditions. Shaw & Shoemaker 10684.