Layard, Austen Henry, 1817-1894.

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 / Austen Henry Layard ; introduction by Andrew George. - London : Folio Society, 2011. - xxiii, 633 p., 26 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.

Reprint of the ed. published: London : John Murray, 1853, containing emendations. Contained in a slip case.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

GBB278905 bnb

015980365 Uk


British Museum. Expedition to Iraq (1849)


Excavations (Archaeology)--Iraq.


Nineveh (Extinct city)--History.
Babylon (Extinct city)--History.
Iraq--Antiquities.