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several books are stacked on top of each other on a tableseveral books sitting on a bed with one open and the other closed
Daguerre Savoie

15 - (Armenia) – 6 volumes.
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(Armenia) – 6 volumes. - DOURNOVO (Lydia A.). Armenian Miniatures. Text and notes for the Preface by Sirarpie der Nersessian. Paris, Cercle d’Art, 1960. Large quarto, 190 pp, [1 f], publisher’s hardback with colour dust jacket, decorated endpapers, slipcase. 80 miniatures reproduced in colour and mounted full-page with explanatory text and captions opposite. 10 illustrations in the text. - Armenians in Asian Trade in the Early Modern Period. Edited by Sushil Chaudhury and Kéram Kévonian. Paris, 2008. Quarto, 418 pp, paperback. Bilingual edition in French and English. Index. - The Armenian Book from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment: A Culture in Diaspora. Paris, Éditions des Cendres & Bibliothèque Mazarine, 2012. Quarto, [93 leaves], publisher’s hardback. “The first book printed in Armenian appeared in Venice in 1512... To mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Armenian book printing, the Bibliothèque Mazarine, in partnership with BULAC, is exhibiting a little-known collection of rare and precious Armenian books, most of which come from the princely, monastic or scholarly libraries of the Ancien Régime. The exhibition highlights the vast yet fragmented geographical scope of Armenian printing in its early centuries (Venice, Rome, Constantinople, Amsterdam, Marseille, Madras…), and the often difficult conditions under which the book trade figures of the Armenian diaspora worked, whether they were printers, publishers, patrons, engravers or bookbinders.” Following a foreword by Yann Sordet, director of the Mazarine Library, a brief study on the enigmatic Yacob, the first Armenian printer, by Jean-Pierre Mahé, a member of the Institut de France, and research on the origins of the Armenian book by Mikaël Nichanian, curator at the Bibliothèque Nationale, is followed by a description of 49 of the rarest Armenian books. With numerous reproductions of illustrations, texts and bindings. - THIERRY (M.). Directory of Armenian Monasteries. Turnhout, 1993. In-8, XVI, 250 pp, paperback. 599 monasteries listed in Turkey, 170 in Armenia, etc., etc. Extensive index. - NERSESSIAN (V.). Armenian Illuminated Gospel-Books. London, British Library, 1987. In-4, VIII, [2 ff]: double-page map, 100 pp, publisher’s cloth binding with illustrated dust jacket. The British Museum’s collection of Armenian books. Numerous black-and-white and colour illustrations. - PRATT (Ida A.). Armenia and the Armenians. A list of references in the New York Public Library. Compiled by... New York, 1919 (Reprint, 2001). 8vo, [2 ff], 96 pp, publisher’s cloth. This catalogue highlights the significance of the New York library on this subject. Extensive index.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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