Nineveh and its remains: with an account of a visit ot the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezids, or devil-worshippers; and an enquiry into the manners and arts of the ancient Assyrians.
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894)
Category
Books
Date
1849
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3207663
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates : ill., fold. map, 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 borders, with gilt cornerpieces; gilt tooled spines; gilt lettered green spine labels: Layard's Nineveh.
Makers and roles
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894), author