RARE SECOND ARMENIAN TRANSLATION OF 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES'

DARVIN, CH´ARLZ. [CHARLES DARWIN]

Tesakneri tsagumê. t´argmanut´yune anglerenits´, rusereni ev neratsakan hodvatse K.A. Timiryazevi. [Armenian - i.e. "Origin of Species". Translated by K. A. Timiryazev].

Erevan, Hayastani Petakan Hratarakch'ut'yun, 1963.

Royal8vo. In publisher's full green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Light wear to extremities, primarily affecting spine. Inner font hinge split, otherwise a fine and clean copy. 591, (1) pp. + 2 plates.

First printing of the exceedingly rare second Armenian translation of Darwin's landmark work. The first translation (translated by S. Sargsyan) was published in 1936 and 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. This is one of the very few translations of "Origin of Species" of which Freeman has not listed the collation. This suggests that he never actually saw the copy but only read of it.

Freeman 631.
R.B. Darwin Online, F631.

Order-nr.: 61618