Michael chamich (11 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Complete in 2 volumes, xli,414 + 565pp. + plate and large folding map, publisher's hardcovers with gilt lettering, text and interior are clean and bright, reprint of the original 1827-edition, very good, X111393.

First edition of the English translation of the history of Armenia from B.C. 2247 to A.D. 1780. Octavo, volume one only out of two, bound in full tree calf with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, morocco spine labels, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, and illustrated with two plates including a folding map of Armenia. In very good condition. Translated by Johannes Avdall. Bookplate to the front pastedown. History of Armenia by Father Michael Chamich (Mikayel Chamchian), first published in the late eighteenth century, is one of the earliest comprehensive histories of the Armenian people written by an Armenian scholar. Drawing on classical sources, medieval chronicles, and ecclesiastical traditions, Chamich traces Armeniaâs history from legendary antiquity through the medieval period, emphasizing the political, cultural, and religious development of the Armenian nation. Written in the Mekhitarist scholarly tradition, the work sought to preserve Armenian historical memory and identity at a time when the Armenian people were dispersed across several empires. …

First Edition. First edition thus, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lxi, [1], 414; xiv, 565; 2 folding frontispieces, one a map of Armenia, and the other the Armenian College at Moscow, plus one other folding plate; list of 211 subscribers taking a total of 251 copies; original drab boards; neatly rebacked, new paper labels on spine. Ex-Armenian Congregational Library, with their stamp on endpapers and title pages and circulation slip tipped in to lower free endpaper. The edition was likely small, certainly no more than 500, and more likely something closer to 300. It is a translation of the author's abridgment (published in 1811) of his History of Armenia, originally issued in Venice, in 1786, in 3 large quarto volumes.…