LAYARD, AUSTIN HENRY The Monuments of Nineveh, from Drawings made on the Spot. 102 lithographed or engraved plates, including 9

hand-colored. Folio, 550x376 mm, contemporary 1/2 leather gilt, extremities quite worn, joints partly cracked; some plates lightly foxed. London, 1849 FIRST EDITION of the first series; the second appeared in 1853.