This beautiful atlas was created by Hovhannes Amira Dadian from the Armenian Mekhitarist monastery located on the Venetian island of San Lazzaro in 1849. This is the first atlas in the Armenian language and boasts ten hand-colored double-page maps, including one of the solar system. During the Swann Galleries’ biannual auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural […]
The post Armenian atlas sold for $37,500 at an Auction in New York appeared first on PeopleOfAr.