1867, Layard, Nineveh and its remains.

Condition : good, slightl signs of shelf wear, faint spots and scattered foxing, the map with small marginal tears, overall a very good copy.
Illustrations : frontispiece, one folding map and numerous woodcuts in the text.
Binding : 20th century half leather.
Volume : 1 volume.
Format : In-8.
Pages : XXVI, 384 pp. 2 ff.
Publisher : London, John Murray.
Date : 1867.

The original work was first published in 1849.

Austen Henry Layard (1817 - 1894) was a famous archaeologist whose excavations considerably increased the knowledge of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia. He was the 'discoverer' of Nineveh and Nimrud in the late 1840s and early 1850s and travelled to Egypt at the age of 22, took an interest in the fine arts in Italy, acquired some knowledge of the Arabic and Persian languages and then travelled overland to Ceylon. Following a suggestion from the Royal Geographical Society, he lived among the Bakhtiari tribes of western Iran in 1840-42 and published his account in "Early Adventures". He first visited Mesopotamia in 1841. His most important excavations took place in Nineveh and Nimrud in Assyria. He conducted two long seasons of excavations in Assyria, from November 1845 to June 1847 and from October 1849 to April 1851. He first visited Khorsabad in August 1846 and returned to excavate in November 1849.