Saint Nerses the Gracious (Սուրբ Ներսէս Շնորհալի), General E - Lot 236

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Saint Nerses the Gracious (Սուրբ Ներսէս Շնորհալի), General E - Lot 236
Saint Nerses the Gracious (Սուրբ Ներսէս Շնորհալի), General Encyclical (Թուղթ ընդհանրական) St. Petersburg (Russia), impr. by Grigor Khaldariants son of Khodjamal, 1788. In-4° (22 x 15 cm) (16), 336 pages. Pages 300 to 336 constitute a second part (with continuous pagination) entitled Historical Panegyric (Դրուատ պատմագրաբար) of Saint Nersès the Gracious by his relative Nersès de Lampron. Complete with 3 plates engraved by Alexei Yakovlevich Kolpashnikov: full-length Saint Nerses, full-length Saint Mesrob and Saint Nerses seated in majesty on his seat surrounded by figures evoking a royal court in a distinctly Europeanized aesthetic. Numerous woodcut vignettes and initials. Calf binding, fair condition (damaged headbands and spines, rubbed leather). Page 77, first known engraving of the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Armenia, used in 1794 in the Azdarar periodical printed in Madras as a symbol of Armenia's national liberation struggle.
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