American antiquities and discoveries in the West : being an exhibition of the evidence that an ancient population of partially civilized nations, differing entirely from those of the present Indians, peopled America many centuries before the discovery by Columbus : and inquiries into their origin, with a copious description of many of their stupendous works now in ruins, with conjectures concerning what may have become of them : compiled from travels, authentic sources, and the researches of antiquarian societies / by Joseph Priest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Priest, Josiah, 1788-1851.

Contributor:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--Antiquities.

America.

Antiquities.

Indians--Origin.

Indians of North America--Antiquities.

Penn Provenance:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Reade, Wm. (autograph 1844) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Physical Description:

400 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, plan ; 22 cm

Edition:

Third edition revised.

Place of Publication:

Albany : Printed by Hoffman & White, 1833.

Local Notes:

Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.

Kaplan Collection copy collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.00694

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints 20819

Thacher, II, p. 36 (Americana)

OCLC:

1464020