Ferdynand Hoesick, Warsaw : loose pages from the past of the mermaid's castle

Warsaw 1920, St. Adalbert's Bookstore, Poznan, 20 cm

428, [2] s.

Piece in good condition. Tissue paper reinforced edges of first 2 pages, moisture stain on pre-title page, creases on first few pages.

Full brown leather. Binding bound with five-panel spine. Blind embossing on covers. Gilding on edges and corners. Gilded titling on leather signboard. Cover boards and page edges hand-marbled.

Warsaw during the Congress Kingdom

From the cultural life of Warsaw before the November Uprising

Józef Elsner and the first Music Conservatory in Warsaw
I. New details about the master and his famous student
II. The internal history of the first conservatory in Warsaw

Mozart's forgotten competitor. A contribution to the history of opera in Warsaw

Napoleon and Elsner. A page from the emperor's stay in Warsaw

Warsaw in Słowacki's letters to Aleksandra Becu

From Chopin's school years in Warsaw

Chopin's concert at the Resursa Kupiecka in Warsaw

Warsaw luminaries as friends and acquaintances of Fryderyk Chopin

Graves of the Chopin family in the Powazki cemetery in Warsaw

Life and customs of Warsaw in Sienkiewicz's literary columns

A slide in Lazienki Park. Warsaw landscape of 1894

Unveiling of the Mickiewicz monument in Warsaw

Paderewski in Warsaw in 1899

A service for Slowacki