This keepsake edition of Book of Nahum was taken from the King James translation of the Bible. The King James Translation is a masterwork of style and the most important book in the English language it  has been the driving force in shaping the English-speaking world for hundreds of years.

In The Book of Nahum Nahum prophesizes the complete and final destruction of Nineveh the capital of the great flourishing Assyrian empire. Ashurbanipal was at the height of his glory. Nineveh was a city of vast extent and was then the center of the civilization and commerce of the world. Nineveh was destroyed by fire around 625 BC and the Assyrian empire came to an end an event which changed the face of Asia.

The Book of Nahum is one of the shortest books in the bible and is sold at or near the publisher's cost and offered up for the collector who wished to have an unbroken set of this keepsake editions.