STC357955 The Famous Library of King Ashur-Bani-Pal, at Nineveh, illustration from \'Hutchinson\'s History of the Nations\', c.1910 (colour litho) by Le Quesne, Fernand (1856-c.1900); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ashurbanipal (685-c.627 BC) last great King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire; he established the first systematically organised library in the ancient Middle East; Assyria); The Stapleton Collection; French, out of copyright.