BOTTA et FLANDIN
Monument de Ninive. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1849. 2 volumes in-folio, grosgrain red morocco, gilded fillets around the boards, large Renaissance-style cold frame of intertwining straight and curved fillets, gilded title on the first board and gilded coat of arms of Baron James de Rothschild on the second (Debès).
First edition of this important work on Assyrian archaeology. 2 of 5 volumes: the text volume and an atlas of 171 plates.
Superb binding by Debès.
Rubbing to binding.
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