Author: Priest, Josiah
Title: American Antiquities, and Discoveries in the West : Being an Exhibition of the Evidence That an Ancient Population of Partially Civilized Nations, Differing Entirely from Those of the Present Indians, Peopled America, Many Centuries Before Its Discovery by Columbus. And Inquiries Into Their Origin, with a Copious Description of Many of Their Stupendous Works, Now in Ruins. With Conjectures Concerning What May Have Become of Them. Compiled from Travels Authentic Sources, and the Researches of Antiquarian Societies
Description: Albany, New York, Hoffman and White. Second Edition Revised. Leather-bound. Both frontis foldout and map present. 21 and 1/2" folding frontis plate, consisting of eight, separate sections, each of which refers to a separate page in the text. The frontis plate shows one minor tear, and is not folded neatly. Fold-out map (opposite p. 161)" a view of the ancient works on the Muskingum, near Marietta, Ohio" (near confluence of Ohio and Muskingum Rivers). Rubbing and wear to leather extremities, but still quite solidly bound. Researching and comparing excavated artifacts, and linguistic similarities, author attempts to build a case for a pre-Native American North American population, originating perhaps in Libya. Good .
Keywords: Native-American Languages.
Title: American Antiquities, and Discoveries in the West : Being an Exhibition of the Evidence That an Ancient Population of Partially Civilized Nations, Differing Entirely from Those of the Present Indians, Peopled America, Many Centuries Before Its Discovery by Columbus. And Inquiries Into Their Origin, with a Copious Description of Many of Their Stupendous Works, Now in Ruins. With Conjectures Concerning What May Have Become of Them. Compiled from Travels Authentic Sources, and the Researches of Antiquarian Societies
Description: Albany, New York, Hoffman and White. Second Edition Revised. Leather-bound. Both frontis foldout and map present. 21 and 1/2" folding frontis plate, consisting of eight, separate sections, each of which refers to a separate page in the text. The frontis plate shows one minor tear, and is not folded neatly. Fold-out map (opposite p. 161)" a view of the ancient works on the Muskingum, near Marietta, Ohio" (near confluence of Ohio and Muskingum Rivers). Rubbing and wear to leather extremities, but still quite solidly bound. Researching and comparing excavated artifacts, and linguistic similarities, author attempts to build a case for a pre-Native American North American population, originating perhaps in Libya. Good .
Keywords: Native-American Languages.
Price: US$ 110.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 76861
- Book number: 76861