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Nineveh and its remains: with an account of a visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or devil-worshippers, and an enquiry into the manners and arts of the ancient Assyrians. By Austin Henry Layard, Esq. D.C.L..
Second edition. In two volumes..
London: : [Printed by Spottiswoodes and Shaw for] John Murray, Albemarle Street 1849..
2 v. : ill., maps (1 folded), plans, plates (incling portrait) ; 23 cm.
Printer's name from colophon, volume I, "London: Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New stret-Square.".
Pagination - volume I: xxx, [2], 399, [1] p., [14] leaves of plates (some folded); volume II: xii, 491, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded).
Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-Z⁸ AA-CC⁸; [A]⁴ a² B-GG⁸ HH⁶.
Both volumes: armorial bookplate of Arthur G. Soames, engraving dated 1899, on front pastedown. Stamp with eagle and lion and name Iltyd Nicholl on front flyleaf recto, Eton School Library booklabel on the verso.
19th-century half-bound red morocco and marbled paper over paste/millboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets between paper and leather. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt tolls and titling. Textblock trimmed and marbled. Endpapers of marbled and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Assyrian Church of the East members.
Yezidis.
Excavations (Archaeology) Iraq.
Nineveh (Extinct city)
Assyria.
Iraq Antiquities.
Murray, John, 1808 - 1892 publisher.
Soames, Arthur G., 1886 - 1962 former owner.
Clayton, Iltyd Nicholl, 1886 - 1955 former owner.
Spottiswoodes and Shaw printer.
England London.
eng
B52725