8vo. xxi, 484 pp., contemporary hard boards, soiled & faded, foxing to endpapers, few pencil underlining, printed for Black Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen, London, second revised and augmented edition, 1818.

Synopsis

According to DNB, the great Orientalist Sir Charles Malcolm saw the manuscript, provided material from his reference library to Mills, and encouraged its publication. Mills later became well-known for another historical work The History of Chivalry.
A very good copy. Divided into 7 chapters: I The Life of Muhammed; II The undivided Caliphate, or the History of the Rise of the Saracenian Empire; III The Divided Caliphate; or the History of the Decline and Fall of the Saracenian Empire; IV The History of the Muhammedan-Tartarian Empires; V The Koran; or, a view of the Theological, Moral, and Juridical System of the Muselmans. – Muhammedan Sects; VI The Literature and Sciences of the Saracens and Turks; VII The present State and Extent of the Muhammedan Religion.
Bibliographic references: Brunet III col. 1726; Graesse Volume 4, P. 528.