History of Armenia . from B.C. 2247 to the year of Christ 1780, or 1229 of the Armenian era. Translated from the original Armenian, by Joannes Avdall . to which is appended a continuation of the history by the translator from the year 1780 to the present date

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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.

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History of Armenia . from B.C. 2247 to the year of Christ 1780, or 1229 of the Armenian era. Translated from the original Armenian, by Joannes Avdall . to which is appended a continuation of the history by the translator from the year 1780 to the present date

Verlag

printed at Bishop's College Press, by H. Townsend, Calcutta

Erscheinungsjahr

1827

Auflage

1. Auflage

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