Older than Adam | 
"I will not tell you yet how the earth came into its present shape; and how its history is cut into tables of stone where anyone wise and patient enough can read."
Devonhdunn This children's book on natural history is from 1860, written by a woman, and unflinchingly talks about evolution and paleontology. One of those treasures I would run back into the burning house to save. 8y