^#smrgSAHAF Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples - 1892

This is a scarce, beautiful, and fascinating well-illustrated 1st first edition antique ancient history and archaeology hardcover book entitled "Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples" by the Marquis de Nadaillac, with 113 wonderful illustrations / engravings, translated by Nancy Bell, published in 1892 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, with a brown cloth hardcover having gold gilt decorative designs and lettering, with a total of 412 pages.

Content in this book include prehistoric works, Easter island, ancient peoples and races, megalithic monuments, navigation, forts, caves, tombs, Fort Hill, statues, relics, pyramids, Stonehenge, dolmens, moundbuilders, monoliths, archaeology, kitchen-middings (middens ?), the stone age, fossils, engravings, ruins, weapons, wars, ancient artworks, discoveries, Connett's Mound, Ohio, American, excavations, pueblo of the Mac-Elmo Valley, cliff dwellers, Montezuma Canon, cannibalism, tumuli, alignments, Orkney Islands, cromlechs, India, mining, neolithic times, the towns upon the hill of Hissarlik, and much more! This scarce antique 1st first edition book is mostly clean and readable with average wear and tear. Rough-cut edges. Owner inscription. Still entirely string-bound although some cocking and loosening at the spine. No major markings or tears noted to text pages. A small closed edge chip/tear to a group of pages toward the front that cuts further into one page but does not detract, as shown, with an edge tear/fold on the first blank end paper. . The exterior cover has edge and surface wear with some peeling fraying at the spine, also shown. But overall, in good condition for the age.