ATLANTIS: THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD
Book Details + Condition: Harper & Brothers (New York and London). Early Edition, 1910. Hardcover. 490 pages; with illustrations throughout. Pseudo-archaeology volume by American politician and fringe scientist Ignatius Donnelly, on the lost continent of Atlantis and its inhabitants. Donnelly proposes that all ancient civilizations descended from the surviving population of Atlantis after a cataclysmic flood destroyed the lost land. The book is divided into five sections:
- The History of Atlantis
- The Deluge
- The Civilization of the Old World and New Compared
- The Mythologies of the Old World: A Recollection of Atlantis
- The Colonies of Atlantis
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; light wear to boards; chafed spine ends; Brotherhood of Light bookseller sticker to inside front board; owner stamps to front & rear endpapers, and to title page; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
