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Account of Layard's important second British Museum expedition in 1849, focusing on the momentous Assyrian artefacts.
Account of Layard's important second British Museum expedition in 1849, focusing on the momentous Assyrian artefacts.
Account of Layard's important second British Museum expedition in 1849, focusing on the momentous Assyrian artefacts.

LAYARD, Austen Henry.

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.

London Murray, 1853.

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$1,564.00

Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon;

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After the success of Layard's first expedition, the British Museum financed this second expedition during the years 1849-51. The expedition discovered thousands of cuneiform tablets from the King's Library at Kuyunjik. When they were deciphered they proved conclusively that Nineveh was located at the Kuyunjik Mound outside Mosul.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo; 5 folding maps, 11 lithographed plates (2 folding, 8 tinted), wood-engravings in the text; publisher's original fine-ribbed pale brown cloth, blindstamped greek key borders, gilt device to upper covers, blindstamped to lower, gilt lettering, neat repairs to extremities, a near-fine set; xxiii, 336; ii, 337-686pp.

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Account of Layard's important second British Museum expedition in 1849, focusing on the momentous Assyrian artefacts.

Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon;

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