Atlantis: the Antediluvian World

New York: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1949. A modern revised edition. xix, 355 pages: illustrations, maps; 23 cm; bibliographical references (pages 327-349) and index. Light damp-staining to front board edges, jacket verso, flap edges, and edges of preliminaries.; else tight and overall very good copy thus, in and well edge-worn about good(+) jacket in archival mylar. Personal owner signature to front paste-down. Hardcover.

Contents: Appreciation of Donnelly by H.S. Bellamy -- Ignatius Donnelly by Lewis Spence -- Purpose of the book -- Plato's history of Atlantis -- Probabilities of Plato's story -- Was such a catastrophe possible? -- Testimony of the sea -- Testimony of the flora and fauna -- Deluge legends of the bible and the Chaldean's -- Deluge legends of other nations -- Deluge legends of the Americas -- Other deluge legends -- Civilization of the old world and the new compared -- Evidences of intercourse with Atlantis -- Greece, Phoenicia, and Atlantis -- Arabian and Egyptian links with Atlantis -- Biblical story of Atlantis -- Turanian, Semitic, and Aryan links with Atlantis -- Atlantean American empire -- Eibero-Celtic colonies of Atlantis -- The Cross, and the pyramid -- Artificial cranial deformation, mummification, and the couvade -- Bronze and iron ages -- Origin of our alphabet -- Antiquity of many of the instruments of our modern civilization -- Atlantis reconstructed -- Reference notes

A look into the mythical Atlantis and the civilization that was lost into the sea.

Deluge. Atlantide (Lieu imaginaire) Déluge. Atlantis (Legendary place) Deluge. Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901, author. Sykes, Egerton, editor.