Iraq Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon

Iraq Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon by William Beaumont Selby, Commander, Indian Navy, and Surveyor in Mesopotamia. [Series title at head:] Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government. No. LI.–New Series. Bombay: printed for government at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1859. First edition, 8 pp. text (single unsigned gathering, stitched as issued), 2 hand-coloured lithographic folding plans, 'Sheet I' dimensions 130 x 59 cm, with 2 inset views, 'Sheet II' dimensions 59 x 67cm, housed in original blue-green cloth chemise with printed label to front. Wear and worming to chemise, Foreign Office Library bookplate and pocket to inside cover, text with a few small worm-tracks, damp-staining and partial browning to title-page, manuscript shelfmark numbers to p. 3, both plans toned, 'Sheet I' with a few small worm-tracks, a few punctures along one transverse fold, strip of adhesive-related light browning along join of two sections, Sheet II' with a few minute worm-tracks, small tear at one intersection Qty: (1) Note: No other copy traced in auction records.