Description: Discoveries in The Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; With Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert: Being the Result of a Second Expedition Undertaken for The Trustees of The British Museum. With Maps, Plans, and Illustrations. Author: Layard, Austen H. 8vo.(5.5" x 8.625") Rebound in half dark brown leather with generous corners, double blindstamp rule to leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, gilt title on fancy gilt bordered red leather to second compartment, gilt author on fancy gilt bordered fourth, single gilt devices centered to all other compartments, double gilt rule to head and foot of spine. Original cloth cover and spine bound in rear. 16 maps and plates, hundreds of wood cut illustrations. Early tape repair to plan facing pg.64, all else appears fine. A beautifully rebound book. From Wiki: Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (/lɛərd/; 5 March 1817 - 5 July 1894) was an English Assyriologist, traveler, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Most of his finds are now in the British Museum. He made a large amount of money from his best-selling accounts of his excavations. Apart from the archaeological value of his work in identifying Kuyunjik as the site of Nineveh, and in providing a great mass of materials for scholars to work upon, these two books of Layard were among the best written books of travel in the English language. We are currently putting all 5000+ titles online, but if there is a specific title you are looking for, please reach out to sidekerbookseller at gmail.com, we may just have it! Free shipping via USPS for United State purchaser within the continental U.S., International shipping determined using USPS Priority Express, DHL, FedEx, or Parcel Monkey. Sonny Ideker Bookseller is located within City Antiques in Historic Roswell, Georgia at 700 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, GA. 30076. We would love to have you visit, or email us at sidekerbookseller at gmail.com for specific wants or needs, thanks! Find Us On: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Sonny-Ideker-Bookseller-Rare-Antiquarian-Leather-Vellum-Bound-Books-100068669041560/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SonnyIdekerBookseller/about Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonny_ideker_bookseller Flickr: https://flic.kr/ps/2v6pn4 Website: https://sonnyideker.weebly.com/ Antique Books, Old Leather Book, Old Vellum Book, Decorative Binding, Antiquarian Book, Vintage decorative, Ancient Leather, Rare Books, Assyrian Archeologist, 19th cent science, Travel Journal, Travel writing, British Museum Recent half calf, marbled boards, Illustrated, 19th century, Archeology, Decorative Books, Decorative Leather, Beautiful Decorative Book
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