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Title: Discoveries among 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 Author: Layard, Austen H. Place: New York Publisher: G.P. Putnam & Co. Date: 1853 Description: xxii, [2], 686, [1] pp. Folding frontispiece, 10 (of 11) additional plates, two folding maps at rear, text illustrations. (8vo) 22x14 cm (9x6") blue cloth with original cloth with gilt vignette, gilt spine laid down, newer endpapers. First Edition. Sir Austen Henry Layard was an English traveler, archeologist, 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. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear and soiling to cloth with rubbing to extremities, some chipping to original cloth at spine; lacking one plate, scattered light foxing affecting some plates, closed tears to folding maps; good or better. Item number: 282779