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Fine Binding with Enamel, Romania, 19th Century. Epistolele si Evangeliile de Nifon Balasescu.
Bucuresci: Imprimeria Statului Nifon, 1861.
Small quarto, bound in full contemporary red morocco over beveled wooden boards, spine and boards decorated in gilt; enamel portrait of Christ inset into front board with inscription (owner's name?) on enameled panel inside the front board; with original knobbed brass edge pieces incorporating neatly enameled clasps with the IHS epigram; all edges gilt and gauffered, back board with initials surmounted with a crown tooled in gilt in a central panel; watered silk taffeta pastedowns and flyleaves, inner morocco hinges; lightly rubbed, 5 1/4 x 4 in.
Worldcat lists one copy of the text, which is a calendar for yearly Orthodox Christian feasts and fasts. Nifon, or Nicolae Balasescu was a Romanian professor, grammarian, and member of the clergy.
