ASKENAZY Szymon - Manuscrits de Napoléon en Pologne 1793-1795. published by .....

ASKENAZY Szymon - Manuscrits de Napoléon en Pologne 1793-1795. published by .... Warsaw 1929. published by Hieronim Wilder's Polish Scientific Antiquarian. Folio, pp. 117, [1], facsimile pages [17], color plates 2. cardboard binding.
Minor soiling of margins of color plates, otherwise very good condition. Original half-canvas cardboard portfolio preserved in fragments. Parallel Polish and French text. One of the most beautiful Polish bibliophilic publications issued in an edition of 820 numbered pieces, of which 790 were for sale. The presented copy bears the number 448. A luxurious handmade paper van Gelder Zonen with the "N" watermark was produced especially for this edition. The work contains 17 facsimile documents, and was printed at the W. L. Anczyc Printing House in Cracow. The offered piece also contains 2 original prints (etchings, aquatints), one of six that were included in 1931 to a very small number of pieces (only to the author's pieces). The printmaking of the graphics was entrusted to Stefan Mrożewski, who resided in France. The charts were printed and colored extremely carefully in Paris; the engravings presented here illustrate a youthful love novel by Bonaparte titled "Clisson and Eugenia," and were engraved by Pierre Gandon.
Napoleonic documents were purchased in 1822 by Tytus Dzialynski, then - kept in the collection of the Kornik Library - were forgotten. They were found before World War I by Szymon Askenazy, an outstanding expert on the Napoleonic era. The collection includes the following documents: on the defense of Ajaccio (dated IV 1793), letter to Carteaux (dated X 1793), letter to representatives (dated XI 1793), note on Genoa (dated VII 1794), on the artillery of the Western Army (dated X 1794), letter to Chauvet (dated II 1795), memo on the Italian Army (dated VII 1795), first instruction to Kellermann (dated VII 1795), second instruction to Kellermann (from VIII 1795), first letter to Kellermann (from VIII 1795), second letter to Kellermann (from VIII 1795), resolution of the Committee (from VIII 1795), "Clisson and Eugenia" (VIII, IX 1795), on a mission to Turkey (from IX 1795), memo on the Italian Army (from XII 1795). Szymon Askenazy, a Polish historian of Jewish descent, dealing mainly with international relations in the 18th and 19th centuries, was a professor at the University of Lviv and Warsaw. The founder of the Lviv school of history, also known as the Askenazy school.