[Armenia]. EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA. Eusebii Pamphili,... Chroni - Lot 161

[Armenia]. EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA. Eusebii Pamphili,... Chronicon bipartitum, nunc primum ex armeniaco textu in latinum conversum, adnotationibus auctum, graecis fragmentis exornatum, opera P. Jo. Baptistae Aucher,... Venetiis, typis coenobii PP. Armenorum in Insula S. Lazari, 1818. 2 volumes in-folio, [6] f., XXXIX-408 p. + [4] f., 380 p., [2] f. (errata), modern green cloth, author and title gilt on spine (foxing on edges, very rare in margins). Trilingual edition in Greek, Latin and Armenian. This is the first publication of the Armenian text discovered in 1782, given by an abbot of the Mekhitarist congregation of Venice, Jean Baptiste Aucher (1762-1854), appearing at the same time as a competing edition given by Y.V. Zohrab. Each volume is preceded by an Armenian title page with engraved vignette showing the island of Saint-Lazare. One of the few copies reprinted in folio and printed on wove paper. (Brunet II, 1109).