The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies

New York: Macmillan and Co. / R. and R. Clark for David Douglas, 1892. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate and ink name and date on endpapers (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Edges and front and end matter lightly foxed, loss of gilt from spine titles. 1892 Hard Cover. vi, 411 pp. 8vo. A collection of eight ethnographic studies, including a chapter on the antediluvian society of Atlantis, edited by his daughter and published after the author's death. Daniel Wilson was the president of the University of Toronto and of the Royal Society of Canada. The studies include: The Lost Atlantis; The Vinland of the Northmen; Trade and Commerce in the Stone Age; Pre-Aryan American Man; The Aesthetic Faculty in Aboriginal Races; The Huron-Iroquois: A Typical Race; Hybridity and Heredity; Relative Racial Brain-Weight and Size. Index follows text.