Author: BONOMI, Joseph.
Title: Nineveh and its palaces. The discoveries of Botta and Layard, applied to the elucidation of holy writ.
Description: London, Office of the Illustrated London Library, (1852).Original embossed cloth gilt, spine gilt. With frontispiece, map and 234 wood-engravings. XX,402 pp. First edition. - Nineveh was one of the oldest and greatest cities in antiquity on the eastern bank of the river Tigris and capital of the Neo-Assyrian empire. - Age-browned, otherwise fine.

Keywords: Iraq Middle East