Scarce travel account in the Caucasus, and nowadays Azerbaijan in particular, by the founder of the Iraq Petroleum Company. A choice copy, presented to the Turkish ambassador to the UK.
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Attractive volume showing fine Armenian calligraphy made to celebrate the new Armenian monastery in Vienna - to be built when the book was published. Very rare edition, with no copies traced in Armenia nor the Americas.
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Lovely example of these Gospels in Armenian, printed in Venice by Bortoli in 1759, with a new set of plates, and here in a richly gilt binding.
AMADUTIUS, Iohannes Christophorus [Giovanni Cristoforo AMADUZZI]
Alphabetum armenum
Fine example of this attractive Armenian alphabet for missionaries, the first edition with the lovely animal-shaped letters.
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Great copy of this small-format book: used by Armenian merchants around the world, including Africa, this copy replete with annotations in Armenian linked with numerology and prayers. Very rare first edition by a leading Armenian printed in Amsterdam; only a copy traced in Oxford and one in Pisa - none in the Americas.
[BELLARMINO, Roberto and] Pietro PAOLO (transl.)
Arrawyel Parzabanut'iwn K'ristoneakan... Dichiaratione più copiosa della Dottrina Christiana [Further Clarification of the Christian Doctrine]
The Borghese copy of an important book: the first translation into Armenian of this major text of the Catholic Church. This is the first complete edition in Armenian and the second book printed in Armenian by the Propaganda Fide. Scarce, with only 3 copies traced in the US.