Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIBLE IN ARMENIAN AND TURKISH. OLD TESTAMENT. PSALMS.) Saghmos Dawt'i margarei . . . Zepur Tawut p'eyghamperin. Armenian text with Turkish translation printed in Armenian characters in double columns. 8 full-page woodcut illustrations; woodcut divisional headpieces and marginal decorations; woodcut historiated and zoomorphic initials throughout. Each page within type-ornament border. 386 pages. 4to, contemporary blind-tooled leather, rubbed, minor stains on covers, spine ends chipped; contents generally clean. Constantinople: Matt'eos Dpir, 1800

Additional Details

Liturgical Psalter in Armenian with Osmanli translation in Armenian characters, "apparently the earliest Armeno-Turkish edition"--Nersessian 255. Voskanian 983. For other Armeno-Turkish imprints see lot 35.