Queen Móo and the Egyptian Sphinx

New York: Published by the Author, 1900. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. 277pp. Large octavo [25 cm] Olive green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt. Dark blue endpapers. Reproduced portraits of the author and his wife at the front. Title page printed in red and black. There are multiple small stains on the front board near the spine and along the top edge, and there is a light indentation that runs through the center of the spine from the head to the foot. Ex-libris Franklin Wheaton Smith (1880-1946), with his bookplate with an Aztec motif on the front pastedown. The bookplate was designed by Robert Wetson Hyde, of Santa Barbara (information gathered from JSTOR, William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library). Based on the author's earlier work, Sacred Mysteries, Queen Móo and the Egyptian Sphinx presents all his evidence that the Maya were the source of world civilization, and were the founders of Egypt.

Augustus Henry Julian Le Plongeon (1825-1908) was a British-American antiquarian and photographer who researched the pre-Columbian ruins of America, particularly those of the Maya civilization on the northern Yucatán Peninsula. Le Plongeon was celebrated for having made the earliest thorough and systematic photographic documentation of archaeological sites in Yucatan, however his theories did face some criticism from fellow archaeologists, leading him to defend his Diffusionist ideas until his death. Le Plongeon is also known for being an active promoter of the Woman's Movement. (Inventory #: 68392)