LESZCZYC Zbigniew - Herby of the Polish nobility. With a foreword by Wacław Gąsiorowski. T. 1-2. Poznań 1908. Nakł. A. Fiedler [et al]. 4, pp. [4], 232; [4], 233-351, col. plates 88 [chromolithographs]. Bound in common fawn [text] and broch. [plates], common card case.
Good condition. One plate (no. 62) duplicated. Author's name misspelled "Leszczyk" on spines. Own stamp. J. A. Danielski. Careful typographical layout, striking color coat-of-arms plates reflected in the Artistic-Chemigraphic Department of Antoni Fiedler. Alphabetical index at the end of the text part. In the introduction W. Gąsiorowski emphasizes that Leszczyc's heraldry "is the first heraldic publication, rendering the coats of arms of the Polish nobility in all their colorful glory."
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