THREE ECCLESIASTIC BOOKS WITH PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BINDINGS
THE BINDINGS, MAKER’S MARK INDISTINCT, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1832; THE BOOKS, KIEV, PECHERSKAIA LAVRA, 1737
The bindings all similarly nielloed with scrolling foliage, all marked on cover; BIBLE, Slavonic. Sviashchennoe Evangelie; Deianie i Poslanie Apostolov; Psaltir [The Holy Gospels; The Acts and Epistles of the Apostles; The Psalter]. Kiev: Pecherskaia Lavra Press, 1737.
3 volumes, 12mo in 6s and 7s (125mm. x 82mm.), engraved titles by Levitskii, full-page engraved illustrations. (First leaf of the second loose, some leaves damp stained). gilt edges.
3¼ x 5 in. (8.3 x 12.6 cm.) and smaller
THREE ECCLESIASTIC BOOKS WITH PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BINDINGS
THE BINDINGS, MAKER’S MARK INDISTINCT, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1832; THE BOOKS, KIEV, PECHERSKAIA LAVRA, 1737
The bindings all similarly nielloed with scrolling foliage, all marked on cover; BIBLE, Slavonic. Sviashchennoe Evangelie; Deianie i Poslanie Apostolov; Psaltir [The Holy Gospels; The Acts and Epistles of the Apostles; The Psalter]. Kiev: Pecherskaia Lavra Press, 1737.
3 volumes, 12mo in 6s and 7s (125mm. x 82mm.), engraved titles by Levitskii, full-page engraved illustrations. (First leaf of the second loose, some leaves damp stained). gilt edges.
3¼ x 5 in. (8.3 x 12.6 cm.) and smaller
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