LOFTUS, WILLIAM KENNETT.

Travels and Researches in Chaldæa and Susiana, with an Account of Excavations at Warka, The "Erech" of Nimrod, and Snush, "Shushan" The Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52, under the Orders of W.F. Williams of Kars, and also of the Assyrian Excavations Fund in 1853-54.

N.Y., Robert Carter & Brothers, 1857. Orig. full blindtooled cloth. Spine ends worn. Light wear along edges. Gilding and gilt illustration on back faint. XVI,436 pp. Frontispiece, textillustrations, 4 plates and 2 maps. Lower right corner of titlepage and frontispiece lightly stained, otherwise internally fine and clean.

First American edition (issued the same year in London) of this historical importent first-hand account of the Assyrian Excavations.

Order-nr.: 30135