A good Autograph Letter Signed, to Monsieur Huttmann, secretary of the Asiatic Society of Great Britain, describing in detail his own translations and his projected work on Armenian geography, and a translation of a Description du pachalik d’Arzroum, with mention of the researches of Colonel Monteith and M.Mohl by SAINT-MARTIN, Jean

Paris, 23 June 1831. In French. 2 pp. 8 x 6 inches, with the address leaf, in good condition. Antoine- Jean Saint-Martin (1791 –1832), French academic, orientalist, and pioneer in the field of what would be known as Armenian Studies. In 1822 he was one of the founders of the Société Asiatique, and directed the publication of its journal, the Journal Asiatique. In 1824 he was appointed director of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal.He was responsible for inducing the French government to send the researcher Friedrich Schulz to the Lake Van region of Armenia in 1827, and in 1828 he published Schulz's first report on the remains of the hitherto unknown Urartian civilization. Saint-Martin died of cholera in Paris on 17 July 1832.