Restoration Of The Earths Lost History The Past Present And Coming State Of Our Globe The
by John Howard Carey
$225 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available
First edition
San Francisco: Printed by Francis & Valentine, Commercial Steam Printing House, 517 Clay Street, 1868. Octavo, pp. i-iii iv v-vi 1 2-134, twenty-two figures in the text, flexible brown cloth lettered in gold on front and rear panels. First edition. A speculative essay on the antediluvian history of the earth in which the author theorizes that we live on a planet twice wrecked, first by fire, then by water.
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