Discoveries In The Ruins Of Nineveh And Babylon With Travels In Armenia Kurdistan And The Desert

by Austen Henry Layard

A$2,100 · Offered by Hordern House

London: John Murray, 1853. Two parts bound as two volumes, octavo; with five folding maps, eleven lithographed plates, and more than 200 woodcuts in the text, some of them full-page; bound without a final leaf of publisher's advertisements in fine contemporary full polished tree calf, sides bordered in gilt, spines ornately panelled in gilt between raised bands, red leather lettering- and numbering-pieces. Layard's Nineveh and

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