nineveh babylon de layard austen, Signé (2 résultats)

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.

No Binding. Manuscript letter from Austen Henry Layard to Josiah Forshall, Secretary to the Trustees of the British Museum. Dated June 9th, 1849, sent from Therapia, Constantinople, immediately prior to his second expedition to Nineveh. "My dear Sir, I have troubled you with a few lines for the Trustees as I am anxious that there should be no difficulty in the way of my returning to Nineveh as soon as the season will permit. I cannot leave Constantinople without decided orders from home, and unless these are sent me I shall remain on without the prospect of resuming my researches. The time is almost too limited for me to avail myself of my leave here - even if any decided opposition in this quarter were overcome. I have therefore considered it advisable to address the inclosed topics even if circumstances permitted me to run home my letter can do no harm. I certainly did not anticipate the opposition or I would not have mentioned the subject of a visit to the England to the Trustees, and would then have offered them the truth of addressing Lord Palmerston on the subject. I am very grateful to them for their kindness - I trust that without a personal interview I shall be able to anticipate and carry out their wishes. It gives me great pleasure to learn that you are restored to health and I sincerely hope that you will long enjoy it." Transcription provided by professor John Russell, scholar of ancient Assyria. Letter from the autograph collection of Peter Johnston-Saint. Signed by Author(s).