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First impression of the first UK edition thus: edited by Atlantean scholar Egerton Sykes, taking into account new facts which have come to light since Donnelly's day. The book was published in its original form in 1882. Illustrated with a series of black and white photographic plates. ***Very good in navy blue cloth-covered boards with light blue titles to spine. Small contemporaneous owner's name in navy blue fountain pen ink: 'A. A. Garner' to top of front free endpaper. Contemporaneous violet bookseller's stamp to bottom of rear free endpaper: 'Harris Book Co. Hong Kong. Boards rubbed and slightly marked. Spine tight. ***In a very good price-clipped colour illustrated dustwrapper. Dustwrapper sporadically foxed and slightly discoloured. Extremities of dustwrapper slightly rubbed. Spine of dustwrapper browned. Small loss and creasing to head of spine of dustwrapper. Tail of spine creased and rubbed. Small loss and small tear to top outer corner of rear panel of dustwrapper. Red titles to front panel of dustwrapper bright. 224mm x 144mm. xix prelim pages plus 355 text pages including reference notes and index to rear. ***Prelims: Foreword; An Appreciation of Donnelly by H. S. Donnelly; Ignatius Donnelly by Lewis Spence; Chapters: the Purpose of the Book; Plato's History of Atlantis; The Probabilities of Plato's Story; was Such a Catastrophe Possible? The Testimony of the Sea; The Testimony of the Flora and Fauna; The Deluge Legends of the Bible and of the Chaldeans; The Deluge Legends of Other Nations; The Deluge Legends of the Americas; Other Deluge Legends; The Civilization of the Old World and the New Compared; Evidences of Intercourse with Atlantis; Greece, Phoenicia, and Atlantis, Arabian and Egyptian Links with Atlantis; The Biblical story of Atlantis; The Turanian, Semitic, and Aryan Links with Atlantis; The Atlantean American Empire; The Ibero-Celtic Colonies of Atlantis; The Cross, and the Pyramid; Artificial Cranial Deformation, Mummification, and the Convade, The Bronze and Iron Ages; The Origin of our Alphabet; The Antiquity of Many of the Instruments in our Modern Civilization; Atlantis Reconstructed; Reference Notes. ***'For centuries the world has been intrigued by the "Atlantis theory", a widely held belief that there once existed in the Atlantic Ocean, opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, a large island, which was a the remnant of an Atlantic continent. On this Island of Atlantis, it is held, man first rose from a state of barbarism to civilization. From the mighty nation that developed there, colonizing parties went out to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Pacific Coast of South America, the Mediterranean, the West coast of Europe and Africa, the Baltic and the Middle East. ***Donnelly's Atlantis was originally published in 1882. Its success was immediate and world-wide and it still stands as the cornerstone on which all modern study of the "lost continent" depends. The literature of Atlantis comprising some five thousand works in twenty different languages, has, for the last sixty years, followed the trail that Donnelly blazed. Not one of them has matched the popularity of this work. This edition also contains appreciations of Donnelly by Lewis spence and H.S. Bellamy and a short note by Paul le Cour.' (Quoteis first edited edition - hard to find, particularly in its original dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 3377
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