LAYARD (Austen H.)

Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon;

INSCRIBED COPY.

with Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert: Being the results of the Second Expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the British Museum.

First edition. 2 Large folding maps & 3 smaller folding plans, 11 lithograph plates (2 folding, 8 tinted), with numerous other plates & illustrations in the text. 8vo. Contemporary full red morocco, with gilt decorated boards and spine, a little rubbed at joints and corners. Some light foxing. All edges gilt. xxiii, 686. London, John Murray, 1853.

£850.00

This copy is inscribed on the first blank by the author.

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203523