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Discoveries in 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 ...
Penn Museum Library DS70 .L437 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Layard, Austen Henry, 1817-1894.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nineveh (Extinct city).
- Babylon (Extinct city).
- Middle East--Description and travel.
- Middle East.
- Scientific expeditions.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 686 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Gorgias Press edition, 2002.
- Place of Publication:
- New Jersey : Gorgias Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- From Layard's second expedition to Nineveh, he describes the ancient past and tells of his travels. His narrative became a medium through which the ruins could tell their story. Contains reproductions of over 200 of Layard's own illustrations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1931956502
- OCLC:
- 51063057
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