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LAYARD, Sir Austen Henry (1817-1894). Discoveries in the ruins of Ninevah and Babylon. London: John Murray, 1853. olding frontispiece to vol.I, 2 folding engraved maps, 13 plates and plans, 4 folding, 8 tinted lithographs. (Without half-titles, small tear to one of the folding plates, some spotting to titles and frontispiece.) Contemporary calf gilt, Babylonian/Assyrian symbols in gilt on covers and spines (spines somewhat scuffed and lightly soiled). FIRST EDITION.
[Uniformly bound with:] A.H.LAYARD. Ninevah and its remains. London: John Murray, 1854. 2 volumes, 8 (214 x 133mm). Plates. maps and plans, occasionally folding. (Some light spotting.) Sixth edition.
[And:] three others (A.H.LAYARD. Early adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia, Farnborough, 1971, sm.8; W.S.W.VAUX. Ninevah and Persepolis, London, 1855, sm.8; James FERGUSON. The Palaces of Ninevah and Persepolis restored, London, London, 1851). (7)
[Uniformly bound with:] A.H.LAYARD. Ninevah and its remains. London: John Murray, 1854. 2 volumes, 8 (214 x 133mm). Plates. maps and plans, occasionally folding. (Some light spotting.) Sixth edition.
[And:] three others (A.H.LAYARD. Early adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia, Farnborough, 1971, sm.8; W.S.W.VAUX. Ninevah and Persepolis, London, 1855, sm.8; James FERGUSON. The Palaces of Ninevah and Persepolis restored, London, London, 1851). (7)