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London: The Macmillan Co., 1970. Price-clipped dustwrapper has 2 or 3 2cm tears and some small chips at spine and fold ends. Book has atractive cream cloth covers with embossed circle on square, orange endpapers, 128 pages. Austen Henry Layard explored ruins in Northern Iraq in 1845. He discovered vast royal palaces and magnificent Assyrian antiquities. This book is Shirley Glubok's abridgement of his account, augmented by numerous photographs of the antiquities, and including copies of some of Austen's drawings (photography was not available when he wrote his account of the excavations). 830g.. Cloth. Very Good/Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.