DZIEDUSZYCKI Włodzimierz - Muzeum imienia Dzieduszyckich we Lwowie. Lviv 1880

DZIEDUSZYCKI Wlodzimierz - Museum named after Dzieduszycki in Lviv : Department I - zoological, vertebrate animals division, II. - Birds. Collected, labeled and transcribed by Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki. Lviv 1880, from the 1st Union Printing House.
Pp. XXXIX, 206, [10], 36., 3 k. tabl. : il. H. : 22.5 cm.
Hardcover, bookbinding, contemporary. Ex-libris. Preserved original brochure cover. Minor staining of the binding. Minor loss of the back cover of the booklet.

Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki (1825-1899) - landowner, first Ordynat Poturzycki, patron of science, Speaker of the Galician National Sejm and member of the House of Lords of the Austrian Council of State, naturalist.

Initially a private and amateur collection of various creations of animate and inanimate nature, founded in 1855, lying in crates in Zarzecz, Poturzyca and Lviv, gradually - until 1875 - was transformed into a huge, professionally run museum. On September 10, 1880, on the occasion of the Emperor's arrival in Lviv, he donated the Natural History Museum he had created to the nation and secured its existence by creating the Poturzycka Ordinance in 1893. [after wikipedia.pl]