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.

Sir Austen Henry Layard

RA Collection: Book

Record number

12/3538

Author

Imprint

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1853

Physical Description

xxiii, 686 pages: illustrations, plates, maps (folded), plans (folded); 21.5 cm.

General Note

Printed by Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New Street Square.
Plates drawn by S.C. Malan and F. Cooper, lithography by N. Chevalier.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and notes.
Includes index and appendix.

Provenance

Purchased for the RA Library 1871.

Binding Note

Tan half bound leather with marbled boards. Gold tooling and lettering on spine. Text block and endpapers marbled edged.

Subject

Nineveh
Babylon
Archaelogy, Middle East
Antiquities, Middle East
Armenia, Travel and description 19th Century
Kurdistan, Travel and description 19th Century
Middle East, History

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