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ARMENIA YOVHANNES (HANNA) Girk' patmoutean srboy ew madsi kaghakis astoudsoy Erousaghemis ew srbots tnorikanakan tegheats Tearn meroy Yisousi Kristosi [A History of the Holy and Great City of Jerusalem], Constantinople/Istanbul, Yovhannes and Poghos, 1782 image 1
ARMENIA YOVHANNES (HANNA) Girk' patmoutean srboy ew madsi kaghakis astoudsoy Erousaghemis ew srbots tnorikanakan tegheats Tearn meroy Yisousi Kristosi [A History of the Holy and Great City of Jerusalem], Constantinople/Istanbul, Yovhannes and Poghos, 1782 image 2
ARMENIA YOVHANNES (HANNA) Girk' patmoutean srboy ew madsi kaghakis astoudsoy Erousaghemis ew srbots tnorikanakan tegheats Tearn meroy Yisousi Kristosi [A History of the Holy and Great City of Jerusalem], Constantinople/Istanbul, Yovhannes and Poghos, 1782 image 3
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YOVHANNES (HANNA) Girk' patmoutean srboy ew madsi kaghakis astoudsoy Erousaghemis... [A History of the Holy and Great City of Jerusalem], 1782

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
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ARMENIA

YOVHANNES (HANNA) Girk' patmoutean srboy ew madsi kaghakis astoudsoy Erousaghemis ew srbots tnorikanakan tegheats Tearn meroy Yisousi Kristosi [A History of the Holy and Great City of Jerusalem], fifth edition, text in Armenian, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut illustration of the Holy Sepulchre on p.8, decorative woodcut ornament on p.9, pictorial large capitals, old damp-staining to margins of opening 3 leaves, contemporary calf over wooden boards, spine ends worn, rubbed [not in BL or Bodleian], 4to (200 x 145mm.), Constantinople/Istanbul, Yovhannes and Poghos, 1782

Footnotes

A pilgrim guidebook to Jerusalem by Hanna Yovhannes (c.1693-1733), a priest to the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem. It includes a history of the Holy City, and information on improvements made to the Armenian Quarter (where the author was born) during the early part of the eighteenth century. First published in 1727 this is the fifth edition.

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