History of Armenia: From B.C. 2247 to the Year of Christ 1780, or 1229 of the Armenian Era  (2 volumes)

Mikʻayel Chʻamchʻyantsʻ, John Avtaliantz; Johannes Advall; Michael Chamich

Printed at Bishop's college Press, by H. Townsend, Calcutta, 1827

2 volume set. 8vo, 22 cm.  Bound in 3/4 leather over burgundy boards. Sticker scuff on spines.  Bindings sound. Clean, unmarked pages. Blind stamps. Folded frontispiece map engraved by P. Savignac, colored in outline.  Folded plate engraved by E. de la Combe in v.2. Brunet V, 685. "FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. The author, Father Michael Chamich or Tchantchian, was a native of Istanbul, who migrated to Venice in the mid-18th-century and joined the Mukhitharian society of San Lazaro, all of whose members were Catholic clerics. His History of Armenia, first published in three quarto volumes in 1786, was followed by an abridgement in 1811 which became the basis of the present translation by John Avdall, a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, who continued the history down to 1827." - Christies, 2010.  

Armorial Bookplate of Robert George, Wyndham, Herbert, Ickleton. Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert, GCB (1831 – 1905), was the first Premier of Queensland, Australia.