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 (The Folio Society)
London: The Folio Society, 2011. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. Item #2349187
First thus (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1751). Includes publisher's slipcase. An exceptional copy.
xxiii, 633 pp. Austen Henry Layard is celebrated as the discoverer of Nineveh, the legendary Assyrian city of biblical renown. His accomplishments made him a founding father of Near Eastern archaeology. Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (/l??rd/; 5 March 1817 - 5 July 1894) was an English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal.
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