Published by Collins, 1966, three volumes, box set, hardcovers, illustrated, 23 cms x 33.2 cms x 8 cms, condition: very good.

 Blue cloth, gilt letters on spines, gilt decorations on front covers of two main volumes; gilt letters on front cover of the maps vol.; blue & illus. dust jackets in plastic protectiver covers on the two main vols.; 677 pp. with BW illus., plus 8 fold-out maps in third vol.; two main vols.

This set has been professionally refurbished and was a central reference library listing, ie the set was never leant out. Stamps for the library & withdrawal of set from library are present. Between one & three stamps per volume. Small closed tear (1.9 cms) to title page of second volume. The third volume contains the folding maps, plans and sections courtesy of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. 

The set provides details of the excavation of the Assyrian city of Nimrud, now in present-day Iraq. The two main volumes showcase "grandiose monuments, fine stone and ivory carvings, seals, pottery, metalwork and even glass of exquisite finesse."  The third volume contains maps of the area.

Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located in Iraq, 30kilometres (20 mi) south of the city of Mosul. It was a major Assyrian city between approximately 1350 BC and 610 BC. The ruins of the city were found within one kilometre of the modern-day Assyrian village of Noomanea in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Thename Nimrud was recorded as the local name by Carsten Niebuhr in themid-18th century. In the mid -19th century, biblical archaeologists proposed the Assyrian name Kalu (the Biblical Calah), based on a description of thetravels of Nimrod in Genesis 10.

Archaeologica lexcavations at the site began in 1845, and were conducted at intervals betweenthen and 1879, and then from 1949 onwards.