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. By Austen H. Layard, ...
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894)
Category
Books
Date
1853
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3207661
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiii,[1],686p., plates : ill., maps, plans ; 23 cm (8vo). Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate: "William Gibbs.", belted with motto "En Dios Mi Amparo y Esperanza." [i.e. William Gibbs (1790-1875)]. Binding: nineteenth-century calf; double gilt fillet and blind roll border; gilt tooled spine; gilt lettered spine label: Layard's Nineveh and Babylon.
Makers and roles
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894)