Nineveh and Persepolis: An Historical Sketch of Ancient Russia and Persia, With An Account of the Recent Researches in Those Countries. By W. S. W. Vaux, M.A., Assistant in the Department of Antiquities, British Museum. 
Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 
London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Co., 25, Paternoster Row. MDCCCLI.

An attractive mid-19th century edition of William Sandys Wright Vaux's popular history of the ancient civilizations of Nineveh and Persepolis. Written by a British Museum antiquities specialist, the work summarizes the remarkable archaeological discoveries that were transforming Victorian understanding of ancient Assyria and Persia during the pioneering excavations of the 1840s and early 1850s.

This revised and enlarged third edition is an appealing addition to any collection of antiquarian books, archaeology, Assyriology, Persian history, or British Museum publications.

Features:

Item Specifics

  • Author: W. S. W. Vaux
  • Title: Nineveh and Persepolis
  • Publisher: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co.
  • Year Printed: 1851
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Half Leather
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Edition: Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged
  • Special Attributes: Marbled Edges and endpapers
  • Place of Publication: London
  • Subject: Archaeology, Ancient History, Persia, Assyria
  • Region: Europe
  • Printing Year: 1851
  • Dimensions: 185mm x 133mm x 33mm
  • Weight: 625g

Condition:

A sound binding with a solid feel; leaves secure; age-related wear to binding with partial fading at cloth edges; endpapers heavily spotted - sporadically in-between - especially present to illustrations and index; frontispiece with stain from top - almost touching picture. Please refer carefully to the photographs as these are part of the description

Keywords: antiquarian book, Nineveh, Persepolis, Assyria, Persia, archaeology, Victorian, British Museum, W. S. W. Vaux, half leather, marbled boards, 1851, ancient history, collectible book.

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