LAYARD, Austin Henry. The Monuments of Nineveh. From drawings made on the spot, London: John Murray, 1849-53, series I and II in 2 volumes, 2° (550 x 364mm.), additional chromolithographed title to volume one, 168 plates, some chromolithographed or tinted, many folding (folds reinforced, embossed library stamps, occasional light marginal soiling), contemporary half morocco (very rubbed). With 2 other 19th-century folio works of Egyptian interest. (4)