Lot 52
British Museum
Assyrian Antiquities. Nimrud
Auction: Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 1 to 78
Description
Photographed by Stephen Thompson. London: W. A. Mansell and Co., 1872. First edition, folio (43.4 x 33.6cm), contemporary full morocco lettered in gilt, 73 albumen-print photographs of Assyrian antiquities, on linen-hinged card mounts with gilt edges, numbered in pencil on mounts (350-379, 382-401, 403-408, 410-412, 415-417, 420-428, with 352a and 358a), wear to joints and edges of binding [Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 547]
Footnote
Stephen Thompson (1830-92) was a commercial photographer hired by the British Museum to photograph its collections in the early 1870s. The complete work comprised seven volumes in total: I, Pre-Historic Remains of Europe and Asia; II, Egyptian Antiquities; III, Assyrian Antiquities; IV; Grecian Antiquities; V, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities; VI, Antiquities of Britain; VII, Seals of Sovereigns, Corporations, etc..