Nineveh and Its Palaces: the discoveries of Botta and Layard, applied to the elucidation of the Holy Writ seymour engraved titlepage

engraved titlepage

With eight pages of colour reproductions of the author

Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations to the spine and upper board

Cancelled bookplate of the Underground Library laid down to front pastedown page

Nineveh and Its Palaces: the discoveries of Botta and Layard, applied to the elucidation of the Holy Writ seymour engraved titlepageLondon : Ingram, Cooke, 1853 The discoveries of Botta and Layard, applied to the elucidation of Holy Writ. Second Edition, revised. Demy 8vo (22cm); xx, (2), (430) pp; Engraved frontispiece plus seven further plates, one map, and 273 illusts in the text. Full calf binding with ornate gilt decorations to the panelled spine, black morocco title label; marbled endpapers and page edges; endpapers and titlepage slightly spotted. A really fresh and bright