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An Italian panorama of Armenian literature

Quadro della storia letteraria di Armenia

£600

An Italian panorama of Armenian literature
SUKIAS SOMALIAN, Archbishop Placido. Quadro della storia letteraria di Armenia.
Published/created in: 1829

£600

Pleasant example of this lovely production, presenting an overview of Armenian literature from its origins to the 17th century.

Image for ALBERT & MEKHITAR. Mec Alpert [Compendium of Theology of St. Albert]. First edition, Venice, 1715-16. #2

Mekhitar of Sebaste arrives in Venice

ALBERT THE GREAT and Mekhitar SEBASTATSI (editor)

Mec Alpert; tʹargmaneceal ʹi vałnǰoucʹ žamanakacʹ, ʹi mecamecacʹ vardapetacʹ merocʹ, ʹi Latʹin lezuē ʹi Hay barbaṙ: Ew nardenis ʹi luys acecʹeal, ew srbagreʹceal.. [Compendium of Theology of St. Albert the Great]

£14,500

Mekhitar of Sebaste arrives in Venice
ALBERT THE GREAT and Mekhitar SEBASTATSI (editor). Mec Alpert; tʹargmaneceal ʹi vałnǰoucʹ žamanakacʹ, ʹi mecamecacʹ vardapetacʹ merocʹ, ʹi Latʹin lezuē ʹi Hay barbaṙ: Ew nardenis ʹi luys acecʹeal, ew srbagreʹceal... [Compendium of Theology of St. Albert the Great]
Published/created in: 1715-16

£14,500

A very important edition symbolically: the first book printed by Mekhitar in Venice. A fine copy of this rare work - no copy traced in the USA.

Image for Armenian Bible, edited by H. ZOHRAPIAN. First edition, 4 volumes, complete. Venice, 1805 #2

"One does not have to go very far to gain an immense appreciation for the magnitude of Zohrapian's contribution" (Cox)

[ARMENIAN BIBLE] – ZOHRAPIAN, Hovhannes (editor)

A[stuats]ashunch' matean hin ew nor ktakaranats' ěst chshgrit t'argmanu[t']ean nakhneats' merots' i hellenakann hawatarmagoyn bnagrē i haykakans barbaṛ hashkhatasirut'[en]ē Hovhannu Zōhrapean [Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testament.[...] With prefaces to each book and an appendix of Apocryphal writings]

£4,250

"One does not have to go very far to gain an immense appreciation for the magnitude of Zohrapian's contribution" (Cox)
[ARMENIAN BIBLE] - ZOHRAPIAN, Hovhannes (editor). A[stuats]ashunch' matean hin ew nor ktakaranats' ěst chshgrit t'argmanu[t']ean nakhneats' merots' i hellenakann hawatarmagoyn bnagrē i haykakans barbaṛ hashkhatasirut'[en]ē Hovhannu Zōhrapean. [Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testament.[...] With prefaces to each book and an appendix of Apocryphal writings]
Published/created in: 1805

£4,250

A landmark edition of the Armenian Bible, in a pleasant example. Rarely found.

Image for [GEORGIAN LANGUAGE]. Georgian for Foreigners. First edition, very rare. Tbilisi, 1925. #2

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Georgian for foreigners in early Soviet Union

SIKHARULIDZE I., P. METREVELI, Salomon GOGLICHIDZE and David GVELESIANI (artist)

Kartuli enis sakhelmdzghvanelo arakartveltatvis: Pirveli Tsigni. Uchebnik gruzinskogo iazyka dlia ne-gruzin. Kniga pervaia… [Textbook of Georgian Language for Non-Georgians: Book One]

Georgian for foreigners in early Soviet Union
SIKHARULIDZE I., P. METREVELI, Salomon GOGLICHIDZE and David GVELESIANI (artist). Kartuli enis sakhelmdzghvanelo arakartveltatvis: Pirveli Tsigni. Uchebnik gruzinskogo iazyka dlia ne-gruzin. Kniga pervaia…. [Textbook of Georgian Language for Non-Georgians: Book One]
Published/created in: 1925

£1,850

A fascinating, pioneering booklet, whose fragility is witness to printing in early Soviet Georgia. For Russians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, it seems to be the first such textbook for foreigners. Of extraordinary rarity, with only one other copy traced outside Georgia and 6 copies there; no copy in Russia and none in the Americas.

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