The credibility of the Gospel history
Subtitle: ... confirmed by passages of ancient authors, who were contemporary with our Saviour, or His apostles, or lived near their time
By: by Nathaniel Lardner.
Contributors: Lardner, Nathaniel, 1684-1768.; Prince, John, 1751-1836 former owner.; Eliot, John, fl. 1778, former owner.; Abbot, John Emery, 1793-1819 former owner.; Jackson, Jonathan, 1743-1810 former owner.; First Church (Salem, Mass.). Ministerial Library.
Publisher: Sold by John Gray ...; and Timothy Sanders ...
Published: 1738
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Evidences, authority, etc.; Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc.; Bible. -- N.T. -- Gospels -- Commentaries.; Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism.; Apologetics -- History -- 18th century.
Other titles: Facts occasionally mentioned in the New Testament; Principal facts of the New Testament; Lardner's Credibility
Notes: Includes indexes: pt. 1 in v. 2; pt. 2 in v. [14].

Pt. 1, v. 1-2, 3rd ed.; pt. 2, v. 4-6, 2nd ed. All others have no edition statement.

Vols. 1-2: "Printed by James Bettenham."

Spine title: Lardner's Credibility &c. &c. &c.

Includes head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Sprinkled edges.

Some vols. consecutively paged: pt. 1, v. 1-2; pt. 2, v. [3-4], [5-6].

Errata: v. [3, 5, 8-14].

Publishers' advertisements: v. [5, 8, 11, 13-14].

Volume numbers on spine run as follows: Part I, v. I-II; Part II, v. I-XII.

Publisher varies: v. 1-2: Sold by John Gray ... and Timothy Sanders, 1741; v. [3-4, 9]: Sold by J. Noon ... T. Sanders ... and J. Waugh, 1748; v. [5]: Printed for Richard Ford ... and John Gray ... and Timothy Sanders, 1738; v. [6, 8]: Sold by J. Noon ... J. Waugh ... J. Buckland ... and W. Fenner, 1758; v. 7, 13, 14]: Sold by J. Noon ... J. Waugh and W. Fenner ... and J. Buckland, 1756, 1754 and 1755 respectively; v. [10-12]: Sold by J. Noon ... J. Waugh ... and J. Buckland, 1750, 1753 and 1753 respectively.

With, as issued, his A supplement to the first book of the second part of The credibility of the Gospel history.

pt. 1, v. 1-2. The facts occasionally mentioned in the New Testament ... With an appendix concerning the time of Herod's death -- pt. 2, v. 1-12. The principal facts of the New Testament ...

Armorial bookplate of Jonathan Jackson uncovered from behind front paste-down endpaper or covered over by the same: v. [3, 6-11, 13-14].

Bookplate removed from v. [5].

No. 136 in "A list of books bequeathed by the Rev. Dr. Prince to the First Congregational Society in Salem" from the "Catalogue" referred to in the will of John Prince, D.D. (1751-1836), originally dated May 16, 1833.

Ex-library stamp: Ministerial Library. First Church in Salem: v. 3, 5].

Ex-library label (copy 2, pt. 1, v. 1-2): Devised to the North Society, in Salem ... by John Emery Abbot, formerly pastor of said Society.

Autographs: v. 1 (front free endpaper), John Prince, Salem; v. 1, copy 2 (front free endpaper and half-title), John Eliot, 1778 and J. E. Abbot, 1816, respectively; v. 2, copy 2 (t.-p.), J. E. Abbot.