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Title(s)
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.
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Published/Created
New York : G.P. Putnam, 1853.
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Physical Description
xxii, 686 p., [16] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DS70 L43 1853B
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
BAC: Published simultaneously with the London edition. Slight variation in title, i.e. Discoveries in the ruins of Ninevah and Babylond.
BAC: Bound in gold-stamped green publishers cloth.
Spine title: Babylon and Nineveh.
Printed by Spottiswoode and Shaw, New-Street-Square, London.
Illustrations by Nicholas Chevalier; after S. C. Malan and Frederick Charles Cooper.
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Subject Terms
Babylon (Extinct city) -- Description and travel. | Hunnewell, James F. -- Autograph. | Lithography -- Specimens -- 1853. | Middle East -- Description and travel. | Nineveh (Extinct city) -- Description and travel. | Scientific expeditions. | Spottiswoodes and Shaw -- Printer.
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