Layard Austen : “Nineveh and its remains with an account of visit to the Chaldean Christians of Kurdistan and the Yezidis “.London 1849 First edition. Large 8vo 22x14cm,in two volumes complete, contemporary full leather slightly rubbed,397p.,493p.,both half-titles present,2 tinted lithographed frontis, folding map,24 wood plates and many illustrations in the text, text clean and bright, overall in very good condition. A nice set. Austen Layard, a hard traveler and explorer, travelled extensively in the Levant and had the opportunity to be the first who excavated Nineveh, the capital of Ancient Assyria and has discovered its huge treasures. This is the account of his first journey in eastern Anatolia in the early 1840s when he discovered the ancient Greek remnants of the Hellenistic Kingdom of Komagini, at Nemrud in eastern Asia Minor, rather his later discoveries in Nineveh. An important discovery and a fine travel account richly illustrated. Atabey 685,Blackmer 968. Scarce