Manchester: John Rylands Library, 1931. Hardcover. 599p. Contemporary cloth. 25 cm. Cover scuffed. No Jacket. Articles on a variety of subjects. Here are a couple that appealed to us when looking theough this volume: "Mathematics in Ancient Egypt," by T. E. Peet (pp. 409-441); and "The Work of Dionysus Barsalibi..... More
New York: 1918. 1st ed. Hardcover. 3 maps (1 folding), 243p. Original cloth. 23cm. Light water stain on corner of back cover. Bookplate. A printer's error has caused a few pages to be completely or partially overprinted with other text (through which one can with considerable effort decipher most, if..... More
New York: n.d. [probably 1918 or 1919]. An uncommon broadside poster (71 x 53 cm.). Moderate edge-wear. Some wrinkling. Two small metal eyeholes near top corners (for displaying or hanging this item). Backed in what appears to be thin muslin that is a bit ragged around edges. Type in red..... More
![Item #83986 Kniga Istorii [by] Arakel. Dawrizhets'i Arak'el, 17th century, or Davrizhetsi](https://mcblainbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/83986.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1440514823)
Moskva: Izd-vo "Nauka," Glavnaia. red. vostochnoi lit-ry, 1973. Hardcover. 623p. Original black cloth. 22 cm. Russian text; English summary at pages 621-623. Translated into Russian by L. A. Khanlarian. More
New York: American Tract Society, (c. 1890). 1st ed.(?). Hardcover. frontis (portrait of author and family), illustrations, 247p. plus (8)p. publisher's advertisements. Hardcover in original green cloth. 19cm. Moderate general wear. SIGNED on first blank leaf by Basmajian at Adrianople. Mostly about Turkey. Armenian author. More
London: John Murray, 1878. 1st ed. Hardcover. This volume only (of 2). x, 352p. Original cloth. 20 cm. Ex lib. (spine label, charge slip, call number on title-page, and "discard" stamp). Half-title split along inner margin and reinforced with clear tape. Edited by Stanley Lane Poole. More
New York: Cordier & Ekstrom, 1987. Folded card with photo on front and announcement of exhibition inside. Boghosian, the son of Armenian immigrants, was an American artist who also taught at a number of colleges and universities. More
Paris: Payot, 1936. Hardcover. map, photos, 259p. Later black buckram. 23cm. No Jacket. French text. Translated from the German by George Montandon. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. frontis (map), title vignette, 5 plates, xiv, 226. Original cloth. 20cm. Moderate chipping at ends of backstrip. Covers unevenly lightened. Mottling on endpapers. Front cover detached. More
New York: Mamasian, 1949. Paperback. 137, 186p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Cover soil. Contents moderately browned but otherwise sound and clean. Armenian text followed by an Armenian-English dictionary. Added title-page in English: Gathnaghbur: Mangavarzhagan Keragan-Unthertzaran with Armenian and Latin Characters. This item was printed in Venice, Italy. More
[Cincinnati]: 1943. Hardcover. photos, 176p. Original cloth. 20 cm. Stamped blurb about an earlier book by Gayjikian on blank portion of last text page. Name on endpaper. No Jacket. Part I is an autobiographical account by Gayjikian's wife Osanna (maiden name Gabooshian) who was born in Kessab, Syria. Osanna became..... More
Erevan: Izd-vo Akademii Nauk Armianskoi SSR, 1968. Hardcover. 473p. 26cm. No Jacket. Russian text. The Armenian Army in the 18th century. Includes the text of 174 contemporary documents. More
Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1943. 1st ed. Paperback. photos, maps, 298p. Wrapper. 26cm. Cover rather worn; front cover torn and detached. French text. More
Erevan: "Aiastan" 1990. Hardcover. 239p. Original binding. 20cm. Corner bumped. Text lightly browned. No Jacket. Russian text; English summary at pages 236-238. Based on that English summary, Kirakosian appears to argue: (1) that the British government used the Armenian issue mostly to extort territory from the Ottoman empire; and (2)..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1933. New edition, revised and reset. Hardcover. frontis, photos, xii, 302p. Original maroon cloth. 22 cm. Minor cover soiling and wear, include a couple of modest bumps. No Jacket. INSCRIBED on half-title by Lovejoy ("To Louise Lovejoy Saunders --- E. Lovejoy" -- perhaps someone related to her..... More
London: T. Cautley Newby, 1862. Hardcover. 2 vols. bound in 1. frontis (portrait), index, 556, 496p. Contemporary red cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on backstrip and front cover. 23 cm. Ends of backstrip and corners frayed (some loss of cloth). Front free endpaper worn and partly split along inner..... More
New York: Ruder Finn Press, (c. 2007). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, 198p. Original Cloth. dj. 30cm. More
[Washington: 1935]. Paperback. Folded four-page exhibition leaflet. 22cm. Small stain long bottom of first page. Bottom edge roughly trimmed (apparently as issued). Held April 13-28, 1935. Nakian was an Armenian American sculptor. More
1866-1875. Autograph letters on sheets of various sizes ranging from 14 x 11 cm to 22 x 16 cm. Most letters have fold creases. Handwriting by Mary and the other correspondents is generally neat although some of the crosswriting can be hard to read. The letter to her husband dated..... More
![Item #76853 Recherches d'Histoire et de Philologie Orientales. [2 vols.]. Paul Peeters](https://mcblainbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/76853.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1466170565)
Bruxelles: Societe des Bollandistes, 1951. Paperback. 2 vols. index, 336, 310p. Wrappers. 26cm. Almost entirely unopened. French text. More
n.p. n.d. [19th century]. Small photo (slight smaller than 9 x c cm.) mounted on a slightly larger stiff, but thin, card mount. Printed text on back (verso) with our title plus the names of the nine clerymen in the photo with numbers corresponding to the numbers above or below..... More
Paris: Perrin Et. Librairies-Editeurs, 1916 [date on title-page]. Septieme Edition. Paperback. 75p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Wrinkling on backstrip. Minor cover chipping. Contents patially unopened. Modest age-toning. French text. More
New York: [New York Public Library], 1919. Paperback. 96p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Mark in upper left corner of front cover where a small label was removed. Date stamp (Nov. 12, 1919) at upper corner of title-page. Backstrip darkened. Small brown stain on front cover adjacent to backstrip..... More
![Item #90603 Vignettes and Trivia or a New Tassel in Gold. [cover title]. Garo Willard Ray](https://mcblainbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/90603.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591120686)
n.p. Ray credits the printing to Roy Cant, his son-in-law, n.d. [Inscribed in 1981]. Paperback. 198p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Modest soiling and some yellowing. Inscribed (by "Garo"). Armenian American memoir. Ray, born in Izmit (Turkey) was originally named Garabed Roupen Abrahamian. The Willard in his adopted name..... More
Paris: 1910. Paperback. Rossignol, V. Proff-Kalfaian et Ses Premieres Oeuvres. Paris: 1910. double-page illustration, 12p. Wrapper. 21cm. Bookplate. Text browned. Horizontal crease, torn at end. French text. A fragile copy of a very uncommon pamphlet. Krikor Proff-Kalfaian appears to have been an Armenian musician who emigrated to the West. More
