Antique 2nd Edition Book, Nineveh & Its Remains Vol.1, English, Victorian, 1849Our Stock # 18. 9537 This is an antique second edition copy of Nineveh and its Remains Volume 1 by Austen Henry Layard. An English, bound copy of the historic findings in Assyria, published in London in 1849. A fascinating individual, Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817 1894) was at times a politician, art historian, a diplomat and a collector. Prominent as a traveller with expertise in ancient Assyria, his works on the ancient city of Nineveh, in modern