Anonymous [Isaac Taylor] - The Temple of Melekartha - Holdsworth and Ball, 1831, First Edition.

London, Holdsworth and Ball, 1831. First edition, first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. An uncommon book with only two located in commerce in last few decades. "...a long disquisitional tale at the heart of which may be found an impressive city built on ruins left by a lost race dating, it seems likely, from the Flood." [JC, SFE] "Long novel set among both real and imagined nations of the ancient Middle East, with numerous fantasy sequences. A qualifier for classification as an ancient/lost race novel, it includes a description of a journey to and sojourn in an isolated city of learning, built on the ruins of a mightier city originally constructed by the first race of men. The novel also hovers on the verge of being an interplanetary with a description of the ethereal nations". [Locke, Spectrum II:101]. Some rubbing to the leather and a little to the boards, Internally tidy with a neat quote to the front endpaper of volume one. TEG with a few marks. Small ownership inscription. A nice copy. [12521, Hyraxia Books].