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. Hindges weak. "75" in ink to spine and front board. Stamp and a few annotations to title-page, otherwise nice 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.: 62032