EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST ARMENIAN TRANSLATION OF 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES'

DARWIN, CHARLES.

Tesakneri tsagumê. [Armenian - i.e. "Origin of Species". Translated by S. Sargysan].

Erevan, Armenia, Gosizdat, 1936.

8vo. In publisher's original full cloth with title in silver lettering to spine and front board. A picture of Darwin embossed to front board. Extremities with wear and hindges weak. Spine miscoloured and remains of paperlabel to upper part of spine. First quire loose. Internally fine and clean. (2), 765 pp. + frontiespiece and plate with genealogical tree.

The exceedingly rare first Armenian translation of Darwin's landmark work.
Only two Armenian translations of 'Origin of Species' has been made. The present first a second from 1963, both translations are of the upmost scarcity. Due to the relatively low number of people speaking Armenian (approximately 3 million in Armenia and 7 million outside) books in Armenian were printed in comparatively low numbers.

OCLC locates no copies.

Freeman 630.
R.B. Darwin Online, F630.

Order-nr.: 54837