8vo. xvi, 436 pp., engraved frontispiece, 3 folding maps, 3 plates, illustrations in text, original cloth, faded & worn cover, weak spine with upper edge damaged, 1 plate loose, Bath Public Library blindstamps and label verso front cover, otherwise copy inside clean and in good condition, James Nisbet & Co, London, 1857.

Synopsis

The author gives an account of his two visits to Mesopotamia – the first in connection with the Turco-Persian Frontier Commission in 1849-52 and the second in the company of an expedition sent out by the Assyrian Excavation Fund at the end of 1853. On his journeys he describes the ruins of Warka, later identified by archaeologists as the city of Ur.