THE PALACES

OF

NINEVEH AND PERSEPOLIS

RESTORED:

AN ESSAY ON ANCIENT ASSYRIAN AND PERSIAN

ARCHITECTURE.

BY JAMES FERGUSSON, ESQ.

AUTHOR OF "THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF BEAUTY IN ART,"
66 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ARCHITECTURE,"

ETC. ETC.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1851.

As. F 381p Eift of the estate Miss. T. K. Lattery Rec. April 27,1931.

LONDON:

SPOTTISWOODES and SHAW,
New-street-Square.

ΤΟ

AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD, D.C.L.,

THE INDEFATIGABLE EXPLORER

AND ABLE ILLUSTRATOR OF ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITY,

THIS WORK IS DEDICATED

BY

HIS SINCERE FRIEND AND ADMIRER,

THE AUTHOR.

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