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Published by c.1880. 5in x 4in, 1880
Seller: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Woodbury Process photograph, mounted, from "Men of Mark",
Published by 1878. 11in x 7in, 1878
Seller: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Lithograph from 'The Whitehall Review' some spotting,
Published by D Appleton and Company, 1854 / Harper & Brothers, 1856, New York, 1854
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. Two volumes. First volume: Pp. [2], viii, 3-326; [2], 4, 9-373. Two tinted lithographed frontispieces, 21 plates (2 folding), 4 folding plans, I folding map, and numerous textual illustrations; Second volume: Pp. xvi, 586. Double-page wood- engraved frontis, 1 folding plate, 2 folding plans, 2 folding maps, plus a great many textual illustrations, many full-page. Both volumes bound uniformly in contemporary half sheep over marbled paper boards, spines divided into blind-ruled compartments with central acorn motifs between raised bands, contrasting gilt-lettered morocco labels, marbled endpapers and edges. Bindings a little worn at extremities, paper boards rubbed, text somewhat browned in first volume, bookplates, but otherwise an excellent set. Early reprints of Layard's most popular and valuable works. Nineveh and Its Remains, first published in 1848, gives an account of Layard's first expedition to explore the ruins of ancient Assyria, beginning with Nimrud on the Tigris and later at the mound of Kouyunjik, near Mosul, in 1845-46. His second expedition, undertaken in 1849, is recorded in his Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon [1853]. As a result of his excavations, Layard was able to supply the British Museum with the greater part of its collection of Assyrian antiquities. "Apart from the archeological value of his work in identifying Kouyunjik as the site of Nineveh, and in providing a great mass of materials for scholars to work upon, these two books of Layard's are among the best written books of travel in the language." (EB 11th ed.).