LAYARD, Austen. Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert, London: John Murray, 1853, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 14 lithographed plates, several folding, 2 folding engraved maps at end (some spotting and occasional marginal soiling), original brown cloth decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt (front inner hinges split). [Abbey Travel 364]