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BONOMI, Joseph. Nineveh and its palaces. The discoveries of Botta and Layard, applied to the elucidation of holy writ. 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. [Boeknr.: 9656 ]