Author: SMITH, G. ELLIOT.
Title: The Evolution Of The Dragon.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. xx, 234 plus 3 pages of book ads; original blue cloth; 26 b/w plate illustrations, 9 text figures; Manchester, At The University Press, 1919. Illustrations include drawing of the flying dragon depicted on rocks at Piasa, Illonois in the Valley of the Mississippi that was later quarried in 1846-7, Maya Codex Troano, Dresden Maya Codex, statues, mummies, pottery and more. Also covers Aphrodite, Josephus, dragons in Chinese, Mayan, Swahili, Tibetan, Greek, various creation myths, Palestine, funeral rites, Egyptian and other countries. Osiris, and more.

Keywords: Miscelaneous Piasa Illonois Rylands Maya Codex Dresden Codex Josephus Aphrodite Maya Mayan water god Mississippi