Cheeseman, Lewis. Ishmael and the Church. Philadelphia: Parry and McMillan, 1856. First Edition. [11583]
Black blind stamped publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine, binding is quite edge-worn with frayed spine ends and corners, the back board a bit misshapen near top, yet with good strong undamaged joints. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. 328 pages; lacks a free front end paper (blank), dark foxing throughout; last 30 pages with a dampstain. Poor. Hardcover.
A study of the Ishmael of the Bible, Mohammed, "Islam a Perversion of Christianity," How Islam Protected the True Church found in The Saracens, Nestorians, Paulicians, Philadelphians, and Albigenses; the Ottoman Empire; the Crusades; the Fall of Constantinople; Precursors to the Reformation; Islamism and the Reformation; the Fall of Islamism; Isaac's Patrimony restored.
Lewis Cheeseman (1803-1861), b. Princetown, NY; d. Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Cheeseman was an orphan born in to poverty who nevertheless overcame his circumstances and gained an education. He was licensed by the Bath, NY, Presbytery when but nineteen years of age, and was a successful Presbyterian pastor in parishes in upstate New York before becoming the pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia in 1848. In 1859 he was made superintendent of the Board of Publication of the Presbyterian Church.
