Josiah Priest: American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West: Being an Exhibition of the Evidence 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

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Josiah Priest : American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West: Being an Exhibition of the Evidence 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

Hoffman & White, Albany, 1834

contemporary full molted calf, spine with 5 compartments of raised bands, red morocco label on two, all edges marbled., A very good copy, minor repair to the title page., 8vo, P. frontis, title, printer’s imprint, v-viii, 9-400, Contains 3 engraved plates two of which are folding and two in text illustrations.

“we have also ventured conjectures repecting what nations, in some few instances, may have settled here; also what may have become of them...some of the ancient nations who may have found their way hither, we perceive a stong probabilty that not only asiatic nations, very soon after the flood, but that also all along the different eras of time, different races of men, as Polynesians, Malays, Australasians, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Israelites, Tartars, Scandinavians, Danes, Norwegians, Welsh and Scotch, have colonized different parts of the continent…We have also attempted to show that America was peopled before the flood; that it was the country of Noah, and the place where the ark was erected.” (preface), Sabin 65484; Howes P592; Stevens 444

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