New Julfa: The Armenian Churches and Other Buildings.

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4to. XIII, [1], 100 pp + 96 plates hors text, line drawings, hard back binding in d/w, appendix, biblio, index, copy clean and in perfect condition, Clarendon Press,Oxford, First edition, 1968. The work is the first detailed account in English of the thirteen Armenian churches in New Jufla, on the outskirts of Isfahan. They were built by the prosperous Armenian merchants, settled in New Jufla in the early seventeenth century by Shah Abbas the Great (1587-1629).