nineveh babylon de layard austen, Edition originale (31 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. xxiii errata 686pp 2pp ads 3 folding plans 2 folding maps 11litho plates ,Embossed cloth magnificent emblem of the Great Winged Bull Thr book is tight and unmarked (slight foxing 1st folding plate original e/ps with book plate of John Charles Harford mp later knighted.The book has a mudie's paper sticker at the top,it can easyly be removed.I could not understand why it had this sticker but i understand Mudies deposed od many of their books 1n 1860this is a lovely book and priced to sell quckly,i like to turn over my books as long as i show a profit. pictures to folow,willing to consider offers.

Hard Cover. Etat : As New. First Edition. AS NEW hardcover in AS NEW slipcase, xxxix + 633 pages including maps and drawings within the text, plus illustrations in full colour. See also our other Folio Society listings, all acquired from the same estate in AS NEW condition, including of related interest 4-Volume Set in Slipcase: Empires of the Ancient Near East (The Babylonians, The Egyptians, The Persians, The Hittites).

First edition hardback. The book has been soundly rebound in white buckram with the original cloth titles relaid; the binding is a bit grubby. The plates have some foxing and a few tatty edges and there is some light foxing in the text. Scarce. Illustrated, folding maps and plates, xxiii +[1] + 686.

[Ancient Mesopotamia] FIRST EDITION, ex libris Sir Granville Bantock. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 686 [2]. With five of the 16 illustrated plates and folding maps. Publisher's blind-decorated brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed, and orange endpapers. Lacks 10 plates and the frontispiece. With an ink inscription on headed notepaper of Lady Bantock, loose to preliminaries: 'August 21;51 | To Dearest Angus with | much love and remembrance | of a very happy time spent | with you all | from | Mother.' Also with the black ink ownership of Sir Granville Bantock to the half-title. Moderate spotting and toning throughout. A few adhesive marks to pastedowns where labels have been removed. Some of the remaining plates have been misfolded, and worn and torn at the joins. Cloth a little toned to spine, with wear and some splits to joints, and chipping to head and tail caps. Fair. Layard excavated what we now know to be the site of Nimr d between 1845 and 1851, and discovered the site of Nineveh in 1849. As well as countless important artefacts, Layard also notably discovered the cuneiform state archives of Nineveh, which form the basis of our knowledge of the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia to this day. From the Library of Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1946), Classical composer and contemporary of Elgar and Sibelius.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Introduction by Andrew George. Color and black and white illustrations. First edition thus. Fine in a near fine (very small crack at the base of the fore edge) slipcase. Still in original shrinkwrap which has been opened.; 633 pages.

Etat : Very Good. First edition. Hardback. xxiii, 686. Bound in contemporary half-leather over marbled boards. Covers with slight rubbing, slight tearing to backstrip at spine ends, one folding plate slightly chipped at fore edge, 2 leaves detached with slight chipping at fore-edge, otherwise a solid, very good copy with all plates and maps.

Etat : Fair. London: John Murray, 1853. 1st edition. 8vo hardcover. Decorated brown cloth with gilt lettering. xxiii+686pp. Illustrations, maps. Fair book. Rebound with original cloth laid on. Front hinge cracked. Pages vii-x, several plates detached. Plan facing page 66 and map at rear torn, but complete. (Babylon, Nineveh, Middle East, Archaeology, History) Inquire if you need further information.

1st Ed. Thick 8vo. xxiii + 686pp. Folding frontis. (light waterstain to head), 3 folding plans, 2 folding maps, folding plate, 8 sepia litho. plates, 1 plain plate, many woodcuts. Lightly browned, ownership inscription to pastedown, light foxing, gilt lettered blind embossed fawn cloth, recased, some fading and creasing, some marking. The first excavation under the patronage of Canning, who had been influenced by the writings of C.J. Rich, resulted in the sensational publication of Nineveh and its Remains in 1848. Layard disagreed with Rich and incorrectly associated the city of Calah with Nineveh. This second excavation at Sennacherib and Kuyunjik which lasted for one year was financed by a £3,000 grant from the British Museum. US$179.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 6 x 9.25 in. xvi, 586 pp. Very good in the original embossed brown cloth boards, with ordinary shelf wear to the edges and corners. There is an isolated crack at the lower rear exterior hinge and three small holes in the upper front exterior hinge. Two prior owners' names appear at the front and there is age-related toning throught the text accompanied by occasional foxing, most of which appears near the maps. Otherwise, the binding is firm and the maps are in superb and unopened condition.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good octavo xxiii + 686pp., fldg. frontis., fldg. pls., text ills., fldg. maps & plans, Original cloth rather battered with some loss at head & foot of spine. Hinges tender o/w internally very good indeed. An inexpensive copy of the first edition which would rebind very nicely.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First American Edition. A very pleasing copy of the first American edition, published in tandem with John Murray in London and presumed to be identical. The book has been rebacked, with new endpapers. The spine is new, but the binder has cleverly lifted the original artwork and attached it, so the book retains its vintage feel while being restored to solid condition. Inside you will find a paradise of illustrations, with many pullouts, and a folding map at the back. The book was produced with high-quality paper, which has only lightly toned and is free of foxing. This is a lovely copy indeed. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; 5.5x9x2.25"; 687 pages.

FIRST EDITION, FULL LEATHER, RAISED BANDS, MARBLED ENDPAPERS, GILT TITLE, RED LABEL. WITH MAPS, FOLDING PLANS AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT (ALL PRESENT). OCCASIONAL FOXING, BUT A VERY GOOD, TIGHT, CLEAN COPY, WITH THE FRONT BOARD PRESENT, BUT DETACHED.

First American Edition. First American Edition. Folding frontispiece and 2 folding map one map torn with loss, map of Mesopotamia is OK. Illustrated. xxii, [ii], 686, [errata] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth, with gilt design on upper cover and same in blind on the lowerr cover, gilt spine. Map of Mesopotamia and others are fine. A very handsomnre almost fine copy of a book that is very hard to get in this conditionq Folding frontispiece and 2 folding map one map torn with loss, map of Mesopotamia is OK. Illustrated. xxii, [ii], 686, [errata] pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. 1st Edition. Discoveries Among 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, M.P., Author of Nineveh and Its Remains. With Maps, Plans, and Illustrations. New York: G.P. Putnam and Co., 10. Park Place. 1853. First American Edition. 687 p., many illustrations & seven fold-outs (complete). Decorated green cloth binding measures 9 x 6 , 8vo. In fair condition. Decorated green cloth boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine collapsed; headbands remain intact. Gilt lettering and deco dulled & soiled, but still attractive on front board and spine. Rear board's gilt deco severely dulled. Edges of text-block deckled. Front gutter split at title page with some exposed binding. Title page chipped at fore-edge. Normal toning and age-staining; off-setting around plates and fold-outs. Crayon scribbles and drawings found throughout Index & rear fly-leaf, end-page, and paste-down. Fold-outs remain intact with some normal toning at creases; some fold-outs exhibit tearing around edges. Binding is intact, with some exposed cording throughout text-block. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Austen Henry Layard (1817 1894) was an English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Most of his finds are now in the British Museum. He made a large amount of money from his best-selling accounts of his excavations. He had a political career between 1852, when he was elected as a Member of Parliament, and 1869, holding various junior ministerial positions. He was then made ambassador to Madrid, then Constantinople, living much of the time in a palazzo he bought in Venice. Layard returned to Constantinople as attaché to the British embassy, and, in August 1849, started on a second expedition, in the course of which he extended his investigations to the ruins of Babylon and the mounds of southern Mesopotamia. He is credited with discovering the Library of Ashurbanipal during this period. His record of this expedition, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, which was illustrated by another folio volume, called A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh, was published in 1853. During these expeditions, often in circumstances of great difficulty, Layard despatched to England the splendid specimens which now form the greater part of the collection of Assyrian antiquities in the British Museum. Layard believed that the native Syriac Christian communities living throughout the Near East were descended from the ancient Assyrians. First American Edition. With all Plates. Gift quality. COLH1853BJKB 10/24 - HK2140.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 5.75 x 9in. xxiii. 686pp. + 16 plates (several folding) and over 200 woodcut miniatures. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth boards with gilt titling. VERY GOOD. Shows marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities, several short closed tears of the cloth, the first several pages up to the title page are foxed, occasional and light foxing throughout the remainder, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and plates are unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.

With maps, plans and illustrations. London: John Murray, 1853 Med.8vo. xxiv,686pp. folding engraved frontispiece, 8 tinted lithographs, 5 engraved plates and plans, (4 folding), numerous text illustrations, 2 folding maps, index, errata on p.xxiv. A good copy of the first edition in the original blind-stamped light brown cloth, occasional foxing, joints rubbed and worn, contemporary signature of Henry ?Kiwan, Glasgow, June 1853 and the later bookplate of the architectural historian Gavin Stamp (1948 - 2017.) We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. [O].

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. Contains folding frontispiece, (xxiii), errata leaf, 686 pp with 5 folding maps and plans, 11 lithographed plates (2 folding, 8 tinted) and over 200 wood-engravings throughout. Original publisher's blind illustrated light brown cloth lettered gilt at the spine. With the blind stamped covers illustating spectacular panoramic figure of a winged bull god round the covers and spine. Terracotta endpapers. A book often found rebound but the original covers are of course superior. A fine copy with boards in excellent bright clean condition, small neat inked words on the first blank 'Stoneleig Abbey.'Very decent copy with occasional slight foxing to some pates.

First edition. xxiii, [i] (errata), 686 pages; Illustrated with 16 maps and plates (six folding) and over 200 woodcuts; Original winged-bull blind stamp covers. Cloth bound in near very good condition; Some foxing to prelims and plates; Two plates have tears repaired with tape; One folding plate in a different place than indicated by List of Illustrations; Text block somewhat rippled.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean, solid hardcover bound in full cloth with tool illustrated boards; spine's exterior and hinges show wear with some cloth missing, but the book's over-all integrity is not effected; still a tight and sound original copy with unmarked interior and text. NOT ex-lib. Profusely illustrated with Maps (some folding), Plans, and Engravings. Indexed. xvi, 586pp.

1st Edition. Large 8vo. pp. xxiii, [1, errata], 686, [2, publisher's list of standard works]; woodcuts in the text and plates, plans, maps [some folding]. Collated complete. Original blind stamped cloth, dull and mottled, a little shaken, with previous owner's name to the title page. A decent sound copy.

First edition. Octavo. pp xxiv, 686. Illustrations including 15 tinted lithographs, textual drawings, folding frontispiece, two folding maps at rear. Period binding of full rust-colour calf finely diced on covers, with raised bands and gilt decoration on spine, marbled edges and endpapers. Not only is this a classic of archaeology but it is also a great travel narrative. On the front pastedown is a Harrovian prize label dated 1853. The printed Headmaster's name is that of Charles John Vaughan who ten years later resigned from his post in mysterious circumstances.Some foxing, mainly to the prelims. Some rubbing to edges of covers. Spine a bit faded with some wear to the gilt. Very good indeed.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (23cm x 14.5cm x 6cm), pp. xxiii, 686, [2] publisher's ads. English text. Bound in publisher's original brown fine-ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, intricate decoration of the Great Winged Bull across the spine and both boards in blind, reddish brown surface-paper endpapers. Engraved folding frontispiece and 4 similar plates (all but one folding) depicting plans and elevations, 8 tinted lithographic plates, plate of inscriptions, 2 engraved folding maps at end, wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Printed footnotes. Rear index in double columns. Printed by Spottiswoodes and Shaw. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Trivial marks to covers. Slight rubbing to spine ends and points. Interior largely well-preserved, some minor tears to folding plates. Previous owner signature neatly inked to front endpaper. Notes: First edition, in the original decorated cloth - one of the most attractive publisher's bindings of the 19th century. Layard's second British Museum expedition (1849-51) yielded "important trophies and discoveries, including the cuneiform library of Sennacherib's grandson Ashurbanipal, on which most modern knowledge of Assyrian culture is founded" (ODNB). Layard (1817-1894) was intended for a career in his uncle's solicitors' office in London, but found the work constraining. Another uncle, living in Ceylon, suggested that he join him there to practise as a barrister and introduced him to Edward Mitford, who was also intending to go east. The pair travelled overland and left England in 1839 with a commission from the Royal Geographical Society to research. They visited Jerusalem, Mosul, and Baghdad before parting company, Layard spending some time among the tribes of the Bakhtiari mountains and becoming proficient in Arabic and Persian. He returned to Constantinople in 1842 and entered the employment of the British ambassador Stratford Canning, whom he persuaded to support his excavations at the mount of Nimrud, near Mosul. After the publication of his first book, Nineveh and its Remains (1849), he realized that Kouyunjik not Nimrud, was the site of ancient Nineveh. He travelled to Constantinople in 1849, and he undertook further excavations at Kouyunjik until 1851. Abbey, Travel 364; Atabey 687; Blackmer 969.

Etat : Near fine. BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN 3/4 LEATHER WITH MARBLED BOARDS AND BRIGHT GILT RULE TO BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS AND MINIMAL FOXING. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED- NUMEROUS LARGE FOLD OUTS, BOOK MEASURES 8.75"x6". FIRST EDITION, 171 YEARS OLD. A STUNNING EXAMPLE IN REMARKABLE CONDITION.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, xxiii,1-336; ii, 337-686pp., 5 folding maps, 11 lithographed plates (2 folding, 8 tinted), wood-engravings in the text, leaf of adverts at end of vol. II, original fine-ribbed pale brown cloth, blindstamped greek key borders, gilt device to upper covers, blindstamped to lower, gilt lettering, neat repairs to extremities, a very good set. After the success of Layard's first expedition, the British Museum financed this second expedition during the years 1849-51. The expedition discovered thousands of cuneiform tablets from the Kings Library at Kuyunjik. When they were deciphered they proved conclusively that Nineveh was located at the Kuyunjik Mound outside Mosul. Blackmer 968.

First edition. Octavo. pp xxiii, 686, [2] adverts. Illustrations including 15 tinted lithographs, textual drawings, folding frontispiece, three folding plans, and two folding maps at rear. Original embossed cloth with a magnificent overall cover design based on the Great Winged Bull. Not only is this a classic of archaeology but it is also a great travel narrative. On the front pastedown is the engraved armorial bookplate of John Lawrence, Viscount Stonehaven, (1874-1941) a Tory politician who served as Governor General of Australia from 1925 to 1930 and who on his return the Great Britain became Chairman of the Conservative Party.Closed tear to one of the folding plans. Front free endpaper a bit marked by the glue of the bookplate. Front inner hinge repaired. Light foxing to prelims. Very good indeed.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Etat : Muy bien. 1ª Edición. In-8. xxiii, [1], 686, [2] pp. Inscribed by the author on first blanc. Illustrated with 5 folding maps and plans, 11 engraved plates of the ruins and their environs (2 folding & 8 tinted), and 232 woodcuts illustrating the text, many being full-page. Bound in the original Edmonds & Remnants blind-stamped brown ribbed cloth, blocked to a Babylonian motif, portraying a human-headed bull in profile, his wings spread round the upper covers, within a frame below a sample of cuneiform script, spine title lettered in gilt within the statue's breastplate, printed brick-red endpapers. Sir Austen Henry Layard (March 1817 5 July 1894) was an English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Abbey Travel 364; Atabey 687; Blackmer 969. (codz). Dedicatoria autógrafa del autor.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxiii,1-336; ii, 337-686pp., 5 folding maps, 11 lithographed plates (2 folding, 8 tinted), wood-engravings in the text, leaf of adverts at end of vol. II, original fine-ribbed pale brown cloth, blindstamped greek key borders, gilt device to upper covers, blindstamped to lower, gilt lettering, scattered light foxing, a fine set. After the success of Layard's first expedition, the British Museum financed this second expedition during the years 1849-51. The expedition discovered thousands of cuneiform tablets from the Kings Library at Kuyunjik. When they were deciphered they proved conclusively that Nineveh was located at the Kuyunjik Mound outside Mosul. Blackmer 968.

Full Calf. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. xxiv, 686 pp., Attractive green calf with gilt borders, raised bands with red calf title label and gilt lettering; bound by Banks jr. of Edinburgh. All edges speckled red. Illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations and many fold out maps, floor plans and reproductions of art and sculpture in Persia. The book focuses on the second expedition of Layard, undertaken for the trustees of the British Museum from October 1849-April 1851. Boards are clean, with minor discolouration to spine which is pleasing; slight rubbing to the extremities. Occasional spotting throughout and one of the maps has a tear but with no loss. Binding firm - an interesting and beautiful peak at 19th century Middle Eastern exploration and archealogy. 8vo. Illustrated.

First Edition. Octavo. Half-title, folding frontispiece and 12 other plans and tinted plates, 2 large folding maps at rear, with hundreds of textual wood block illustrations. The author became increasingly interested in locating and unearthing the great cities of biblical renown. He quite his law firm and traveled to where he believed Nineveh was but found other important palaces and artifacts before locating Nineveh. Bound in full red polished calf ruled in gilt, raised bands with compartments fully decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label gilt marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, some wear to head, some spots of discoloration. Internally text is clean and without foxing, previous owner's name plate with name scratched out. A very good copy of this important work.

with Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert: Being the results of the Second Expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the British Museum. First edition. 2 Large folding maps & 3 smaller folding plans, 11 lithograph plates (2 folding, 8 tinted), with numerous other plates & illustrations in the text. 8vo. Contemporary full red morocco, with gilt decorated boards and spine, a little rubbed at joints and corners. Some light foxing. All edges gilt. xxiii, 686. London, John Murray, This copy is inscribed on the first blank by the author.