Main entry:

Place, Victor, 1818-1875, author, illustrator.

Title & Author:

Ninive et l'Assyrie / par Victor Place, consul général ; avec des essais de restauration par Félix Thomas ; ouvrage publié d'après les ordres de l'empereur.

Publication:

Paris : Imprimerie impériale, MDCCCLXVII-MDCCCLXX [1867-1870]

Description:

3 volumes (VIII, 323; 323; VIII pages, 87 leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 64 cm +

Notes:
Volume 3: plates.
Issued in parts.
At head of title: Ministère de la maison de l'empereur et des beaux-arts.
87 plates numbered 1-82 including six 'bis' plates (18 bis, 31 bis, 337 bis, 44 bis, 50 bis & 52 bis) and with plate 68/69 on a single sheet, 10 double-page, including 2 in color (1 on Chine), the remainder single-page recto only, including 14 in color or partial color.
Vicaire, G. Manuel de l’amateur de livres du XIXe siècle, 1801-1893, VI, 698

Subject:

Art, Assyro-Babylonian.
Architecture Assyria.
Excavations (Archaeology) Assyria.
Bas-relief Assyria.
Architecture Assyrie.
Fouilles (Archéologie) Assyrie.
Bas-reliefs Assyrie.
Architecture
Nineveh (Extinct city)
Assyria Antiquities.
Ninive (Ville ancienne)
Assyrie Antiquités.
Middle East Assyria
Iraq Nineveh (Extinct city)

Form/genre:

photogravures (prints)
Héliogravures.

Added entries:

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873, patron.
Thomas, Félix, 1815-1875, contributor, illustrator.
France. Ministère de la maison de l'empereur et des beaux-arts.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 34921
Call No.: 9850
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 34920
Call No.: 9850
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 34919
Call No.: 9850
Copy: v. 3
Status: Available