[EARLY TRAVEL ACCOUNT OF ARMENIA AND HIGHLANDS / BANNED BOOKS - CENSORSHIP] Hayastan: Shrjagayut'yunner yev usumnasirut'yunner. [= Armenia: Travels and studies]. Translated into Armenian by Lion Larents.

H. F. B. LINÇ [HARRY FINNIS BLOSSE LYNCH], (1862-1913). Typog. [Tpagrut'iwn] R. Sagaean, K[onstantino]polis [Kostandnupolsoy - Constantinople], 1913. In modern full morocco. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Armenian. 464 p., b/w plates and maps., 2 portraits of Lynch, bibliography. First and early banned Armenian edition printed in Istanbul (Constantinople) of Lynch's travel account of Armenia and Highlands. Original English First Edition published in 1901 as 2 volumes. Vol. 1 is the Russian provinces, 2 is the Turkish provinces. This Armenian edition contains selections from both volumes. "Henry Finnis Blosse Lynch was born in London in 1862, of Irish parentage. His family ran Lynch Brothers, a firm that traded with and ran shipping lines in Persia and Mesopotamia. Lynch had already traveled widely in those regions before their geographical closeness to Armenia, together with the growing importance of the "Armenian Question", attracted him to Armenia. Lynch later became a member of the Brit