Shelfmark
Iaa5.3.35
Author
Title
Notices sur l'état actuel de la Perse, : en persan, en arménien et en français; / par Myr-Dâvoud-Zadour de Melik Schahnazar, envoyé de Perse en France; et MM. Langlès, ... [et] Chahan de Cirbied, ...
Varying form of title
Added title page title: État actuel de la Perse
Publication, distribution, etc.
Paris, : Imprimerie royale. Chez Nepveui, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26., 1818.
Physical description
[4], 360 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports. (some col.) ; 15 cm. (12mo)
Language
Texts in French, Armenian, and Persian (using Arabic alphabet).
Note
With half-title.
Note
Nersessian records additional engraved title-plate, hand-coloured and dated 1817, reading: État actuel de la Perse.
Note
Nersessian records two hand-coloured engraved portraits of Melik Schahnazar and of Khatchadour d'Hohannes. The present copy includes between leaves A1 and A2 a portrait of "Le Roi d'Achem" (uncoloured).
Citation/references note
Nersessian, 335
Provenance
Eton College Library booklabel.
Provenance
Part of bequest to Eton by Manoug Parikian in 1988 but lacking his booklabels.
Provenance
Pencil note inside back cover concerning purchase of volume: "Aug. 1974 Seligman £40.- / [19]83 Brill £92.-".
Binding
Contemporary 19th century red paste-paper wrappers; printed spine label.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting additional engraved title and the portrait of Melik Schahnazar.
Copy-specific note
Parikian's bibliographical notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Untrimmed edges.
Subject
Armenians Iran.
Subject
Iran Description and travel.
Subject
Iran Politics and government.
Subject
Iran Social conditions.
Added entry--name
Nepveu, A. printer.
Added entry--name
Parikian, Manoug former owner.
Added entry--name
Langlès, L., 1763 - 1824 Louis
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Imprimerie royale publisher.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre arm per
Identifier
B43833