Shelfmark
Iaa5.2.37 - Iaa5.2.38
Author
Uniform title
[Պատմութիւն Հայոց]
[Patmutʻiwn hayotsʻ. English Abridgments]
[Patmutʻiwn hayotsʻ. English Abridgments]
Title
History of Armenia / by Father Michael Chamich ; from B.C. 2247 to the year of Christ 1780, or 1229 of the Armenian era ; translated from the original Armenian, by Johannes Avdall, Esq., member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, &c. ; to which is appended a continuation of the history by the translator from the year 1780 to the present date ; in two volumes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Calcutta : Printed at Bishop's College Press, by H. Townsend., 1827.
Physical description
2 v. : ill., map ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Language
Translated from Armenian.
Note
An English translation of the author's abridgment (published in 1811) of his History of Armenia, issued originally in 1786 in 3 large quarto volumes. cf. vol. 1, preface, p. xx-xxi.
Note
Pagination: vol. 1: lxi [i.e.xli], 414 p., [2] folded leaves of plates ; v. 2: xiv, 565 p., [1] folded leaf of plates.
Note
List of subscribers on p. 555-565 (vol. 2)
Note
Plates: v.1: folded map of Armenia (Printed by S.Smith & Co., Hurkara Press); engraving of the battle scene between Bell and Haik (Belus and Haicus) with Mt. Ararat & Noah’s Ark in the background [eng. by E. de La Combre]; v.2: folded engraving of ‘A View of the Armenian College istituted by the noble family of the Eleazars at Moscow, 1816’ [Lazarian Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow].
Provenance
Booklabels of Manoug Parikian.
Binding
20th century brown buckram quarter binding; brown paper boards; marbled edges.
Copy-specific note
Pencil price inside front cover: 2 vols £5-5-0.
Copy-specific note
Parikian's bibliographical notes in pencil.
Added entry--name
Parikian, Manoug former owner.
Added entry--name
Avdaleantsʻ, Hovhannēs, 1803 - 1870 translator.
Added entry--name
Bishop's College (Kolkata, India) printer.
Added entry--place
India Kolkata.
Language code
eng arm
Identifier
B44027