1833 · Albany
by Priest, Josiah
Albany: Hoffman and White, 1833. Third edition revised, 8vo, pp. 100; 2 folding plates, a few text illustrations; original full calf with red morocco label on spine, speckled edges, light rubbing to boards, front folding plate spotted and wrinkled from careless folding, second, smaller plate also artlessly folded, edges spotted, good and sound. A polemical text on the origin of civilization in the Americas. "Priest argued that America was the land where Noah’s Ark came to rest and suggested that at least some of the mounds had been built before the Deluge. Surveying the various themes of mound builder origins, he could not decide whether the mounds were (truncated)