Nineveh and its remains with an account of a visit to the Chaldæn christians of Kurdistan and the Yezidis, or devil-worshippers and an enquiry into the manners and arts of the ancient Assyrians.

Sir Austen Henry Layard

RA Collection: Book

Record number

15/3408

Author

Edition

3rd edition.

Imprint

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1849

Physical Description

2 volumes: frontispieces, illustrations, plans, maps (folded); 22 cm.

General Note

Printed by Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New Street Square.
Volume 1 has bookseller label top left of front board paste down. "Wilson bookseller stationer and binder, 11 Royal Exchange"

Binding Note

Leather bound volumes, embossed and gold lining on boards. Embossed decoration on spines, lettering in gold on red spine labels with marbled edged text block and endpapers.

Subject

Nineveh
Assyria
Yezidis
Assyria, History

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