Nineveh and Its Palaces the Discoveries of Botta and Layard, Applied to the Elucidation of Holy Writ by Bonomi Joseph - 1853

George Bell and Sons, 1878. third edition/ revised. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover: Beautifully bound in green leather with Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Trinity Term, AD. 1882 embossed in gold on front cover. Title on gold decorated spine on red leather label between raised bands. Leather is worn at corners and edges. Some scuffing and soil. Marbleized fore edges and endpapers. Previous owners name, notation and 'stamp' on second free endpaper. Typed book description glued to blank verso of first free endpaper. Occasional foxing throughout text. Foldout has 3 inch closed tear. Nice tight binding. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

George Bell & Son, 1889. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1889. Third and Revised Edition. 537 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.

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.

London: Ingram, Cooke & Co, 1853. Second edition, Revised. Illus. 429pp. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary red pebbled morocco, gilt spine and covers, a.e.g. Some foxing notes at end. Second edition, Revised. Illus. 429pp. 8vo.