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Estat present de l'Armenie, tant pour le temporel que pour le spirituel. Avec une description du pays & des mœurs de ceux qui l'habitent..
A Prais, : Chez la veuve de Jacques Langlois. Et Jacques Langlois, imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, au bas de la ruë S. Jacques, à l'image S. Vincent., M. DC. XCIV. [1694]
[20], 279, 290-396, [2] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Anonymous. By Thomas Charles Fleuriau d'Armenonville (cf. Barbier).
At foot of title: Avec privilege du Roy.
Privilege leaf at end, granted to Jacques Langlois, 14 Jan. 1694; printing completed 8 May 1694.
Signatures: a⁴ ẽ² A-2I⁸/⁴ 2K².
Small t.p. ornament; initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Numbers 280-289 omitted in pagination.
Eton College booklabel recording bequest to Eton by Manoug Parikian in 1988.
Inscription in pencil by Parikian: "Present from D. [i.e. his wife Diana?] Sept [19]87".
Printed blue label of Bernard Quaritch recording purchase at the Sotheby's sale of the Hamilton Palace Library Beckford Collection, June 30-July 13, 1882. From the library of William Beckford.
Armorial bookplate of Charles Robert Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer (?).
Library label of Althorp.
Engraved bookplate of Charles Jacques Louis de Coquereau. (Lot 1260 in the sale of his library, 1796.)
Inscription on endleaf identifying device of Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet de Belle-Isle with reference to Guignard, p. 225; presumably in reference to pencil inscription "Fouquet" on front flyleaf and squirrel binding stamp on the spine.
18th century calf; single blind fillet border; gilt-tooled spine compartments with armorial stamp of a squirrel(?); five raised bands; black spine label "Voyage d'Armenie"; red text block edges; marbled endpapers.
Parikian's bibliographical notes in pencil.
Armenia Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Armorial bookplates.
Veuve de Jacques Langlois bookseller.
Parikian, Manoug former owner.
Langlois, Jacques, 1664 - 1701 printer.
Beckford, William, 1760 - 1844 former owner.
Spencer, Charles Robert Spencer,, 1857 - 1922 Earl former owner.
Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet,, 1684 - 1761 duc de former owner.
Althorp (England) former owner.
France Paris.
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