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James Fergusson : The Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored: An Essay on Ancient Assyrian and Persian Architecture

John Murray, London, 1851

contemporary decorative red cloth boards embossed with ancient Persian royal court image from the walls of Persepolis, rebacked expertly. Spine with 5 compartments of rasied bands, gilt lettering on two and three., An excellent copy., Large 8vo, P. frontis, title, printer’s imprint, dedication, advertisement, v-xvi, 1-368, 1-31, (1), 8 wood engraved plates including frontis, and numerous text illustrations.

James Fergusson a Scottish writer on architecture. He was adviser with Austen Layard in the scheme of decoration for the Assyrian court at The Crystal Palace. He received the gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1871. His works included, A Proposed New System of Fortification (1849), Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis restored (1851), Mausoleum at Halicarnassus restored (1862), Tree and Serpent Worship (1868), Rude Stone Monuments in all Countries (1872), and The Temples of the Jews and the other Buildings in the Haram Area at Jerusalem (1878).
Nineveh was an important city in ancient Assyria. This "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in modern-day Mosul, Iraq.
Persepolis was an ancient ceremonial capital of the second Iranian dynasty, the Achaemenid Empire, situated some 70 km northeast of modern city of Shiraz, not far from where the small river Pulwar flows into the Kur., Wilson 63; Persia New York Public Library 5

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