Atlantis The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donelly
Publication: 1900 Harper & Brothers, Publishers; NY - London
An early edition in the preferred binding, wooden engravings throughout. This work has been described as a A" speculative and imaginative turn of mind, a remarkable capacity to juxtapose disparate facts, a vigorous prose style and a lawyer’s gift for advocacy led him to write a variety of books, including fiction, during the final decades of his life. In Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, Donnelly sought to validate Plato’s narrative by studying myths” (ANB). Donnelly proposes thatt the Atlantean kings were the gods of Greek and Phoenician mythology, and that their colonies in both hemispheres significantly influenced early civilizations.
Association copy with inscription from Captain R.F. Lush [Robert Free Lush], a British Army captain at Westyorkshire
Condition: publishers green cloth boards, gilt title to spine, gilt chariot to cover, book plate to pastedown, flyleaf with indication of removed stamp, institutional copy as indicated by the stamp to rear prelim and remnants of removed label to the lower spine, otherwise clean interior, binding is firm, still a bright copy in Very Good condition