Entrée principale:

Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894.

Titre et auteur:

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. / by Austen H. Layard ...

Publication:

London : John Murray, 1853. (Spottiswoode and Shaw, New-Street-Square.)

Description:

xxiii, [1], 686, [2] pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Copy [A] bequeathed by the Rev. Chauncy Hare Townshend.
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Copy [A] bound in tan cloth (library binding), retaining upper board of publisher's binding. 25 cm.
Copy [B] donated by John Forster.
Copy [B] is a presentation copy from the author.
Copy [C] bequeathed by John Jones.
Plates are lithographs or etchings; wood engravings in the text.
Publisher's advertisements on final leaf.
Publisher's binding of brown cloth with an illustration stamped in blind on boards and spine.
With a half-title reading: Discoveries in Nineveh and Babylon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sujet:

Travel
Babylon (Extinct city)
Middle East Description and travel.
Nineveh (Extinct city)
Babylone (Ville ancienne)
Ninive (Ville ancienne)
Iraq Babylon (Extinct city)
Iraq Nineveh (Extinct city)
Middle East

Classification/genre:

Booksellers' tickets England 1870-1899.
bands (binding components)
Blind-tooled bindings (gathered matter components.
Calf bindings.
Etchings.
Gold-tooled bindings (gathered matter components.
lettering pieces.
lithographs.
marbled paper.
Stained edges.
travel literature.
Wood engravings.
Lithographs
Annotations (Provenance)
Bookplates (Provenance).
Lithographies.

Vedettes secondaires:

British Museum. Trustees.
John Murray (Firm), publisher.
National Art Library (Great Britain). Forster Collection.
National Art Library (Great Britain). Jones Collection.
National Art Library (Great Britain). Townshend Bequest.
Spottiswoode & Shaw (Firm), printer.
England London.

Discoveries in Nineveh and Babylon
Layard's Nineveh & Babylon

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 22712
Cote: PO14426
Statut: Disponible