LAYARD (Sir Austen Henry, 1817-1894, Archaeologist, M.P. & Diplomat, Excavator of Nineveh)

Autograph Letter Signed to saying that he "cannot find amongst my notes any accounting of the King who built the Palace ... Can you tell me in what part of the Assyrian[?] lists he is to be placed ..." ending with a row of hieroglyphics and a question mark, 1 side 8vo., 130 Piccadilly, 12th February

Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal.
In 1867 he published Nineveh and Babylon A narrative of a second expedition to Assyria, during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851.

Item Date:  1867

Stock No:  41127      £225

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