[The Bible translated from the Hebrew and Greek into Modern Western Armenian].

New York: American Bible Society, 1862.

Price: $450.00


About the item

Text in Armenian. New Testament with separate title page. 879, [5], 274 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blindstamped leather. Rubbed, lower board and last leaf detached. Good. OCLC: 39994158 (Yale).

Item #321072

An early example of Armenian printing in America. The Armenian Bible was first printed in New York in 1859. "The translation of the OT begun ... by H.G.O. Dwight and others ... [was] completed by Elias Riggs. The NT is the version by J. Zohrab, revised by J.B. Adger in 1841-2" ( (Darlow & Moule 1851).