Title: PARADISE FOUND: THE CRADLE OF THE HUMAN RACE AT THE NORTH POLE
Author: William F. Warren
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
City: BostonYear: 1885 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 505 Pages
Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: Very scarce first edition from 1885 of "Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole." Hardcover octavo with green cloth boards, gilt writing on spine. In very good condition: Solid, tight boards and binding with minimal shelfwear, save for small library label on lower spine. Faint stamp on endpaper (of the Davenport Public Museum). Stamp also appears faintly on the top margins of 3 text pages and title page. Former owner's name in old pencil on copyright page — otherwise, crisp, clean pages. A fascinating account of the human race originating from the North Pole, as well as scientific theories that Atlantis and the mythical Garden of Eden were located at the North Pole. Author William F. Warren was also the first President of Boston University.
