[EARLY EXAMPLE OF AN ARMENIAN BIBLE PRINTED IN NEW YORK] Astuatsashunch'. Girk' hin ew nor ktakarants': Ebrayakan ew hunakan bnagirnerên t'argmanuats. [i.e. Bread of God. Book. Old and New Testaments. Hebrew and Greek manuscripts translated].

ARMENIAN BIBLE PRINTED IN NEW YORK. [American Bible Society], Nor Eork [New York], 1860. Extremely rare first edition of one of the earliest Armenian Bibles printed in the American diaspora. SOME INFORMATION ABOUT ARMENIAN PRINTING IN AMERICA: The first Armenian-language book was published in the United States in 1857. At that time, very few Armenians lived in the New World, and from 1857 to 1888, all Armenian printing activity in the USA was carried out by American missionaries from New York. About forty titles were printed in three decades, including various editions of the Bible, the New Testament, the Psalms, other religious literature, and at least four printings of the Armenian translation of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. The missionaries then shipped these books to their various posts in the Ottoman Empire's Armenian-inhabited provinces. After the beginning of Armenian mass migration to the USA in the late nineteenth century, the new migrants set up their own presses. Th