Austen Henry Layard, ESQ, D.C.L. - A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh - 1851

First Edition of Austen Henry Layard’s Discovery of Nineveh, for collectors of Austen Henry Layard, 19th Century Travel Books, and for those interested in Nineveh, Mesopotamia, Iraq, Babylonia, Babylonians, Assyria, The Middle East, Travel and Exploration.

A detailed account of Layard’s discovery of the Assyrian City Nineveh, great work of excavations of antiquities there. Also giving much information about the region including Mosul and Baghdad at that time,

Item Description
1st Edition copy of this authoritative study on the Assyrian cities of Nineveh. The book is well-illustrated with 68 engravings including frontispiece, 5 fold out engraving plate and plans, and wood-cut engravings in text. Published by John Murray, London, 1851. Publisher’s original half bound in olive green leather with marbled boards. Spine in five compartments with flat bands, gilt lettering pieces to compartment two.

Book Dimensions: 19 x 13 cm & Number of Pages: 360 including index

Illustrations:
- Frontispiece ‘Lowering The Bull’
- Fold out Plan II. ‘South-west Ruins, Nimroud’
- Fold out Plan III. ‘North-west Palace, Nimroud’
- Fold out ‘Idols Carried in Procession by Assyrian Warriors’
- Fold out Plan IV. ‘Excavated Ruins at Kouyunjik’
- Fold out ‘The King in his Chariot Returning from Battle’

Condition
Solid, and well-bound book. Wear to board’s corners, and edges, with rubbing and bumping to head and foot of spine. Internally; the book is in good condition. A label sticker on past down page. Some tears and missing parts of the first three fold outs; the other two fold outs are complete. Foxing, and marking spots to some pages. Inner hinges are very good, and pages are tightly held at the gutter. All illustrations are present and bright (Please see pictures).