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Layard, Austin Henry. Nineveh und Babylon. Nebst Beschreibung seiner Reisen in Armenien, Kurdistan und der Wüste. Übersetzt von J. Th. Zenker.

With title portrait, 3 folding plans, 2 folding maps and 24 folding plates at the end of the book and with 5 tinted lithographs and a folding plate in the text. VIII, 526 pp., 1 blank leaf. Large 8vo. Contemp. half sand coloured morocco with spine label. – Leipzig, Dyk, n. d. (1856).

First German edition. Austin (or Austen) Henry Layard (1817-1894) was one of the leading British archaeologists in the 19th century. – Text foxed throughout. Plates clean. Trace of a removed label on lower spine. – Best.-Nr. 27202