GACKI Józef - Benedictine monastery in Sieciechow, Radom 1872 [and] Benedictine monastery of the Holy Cross on Bald Mountain. Warsaw 1873

GACKI Józef - Benedictine monastery in Sieciechow according to local writings and legends. Radom 1872, In the printing house of J. Trzebinski [co-edited with:] GACKI Józef - Benedyktyński klasztor Świętego Krzyża na Łysej Góra. Warsaw 1873, Printed by J. Sikorski.
PP. 299; 345, III, [4]. Height: 20 cm.
Binding: half leather of the period. Back divided into 5 fields. Gilded author's name in one of the fields, titlepage in the other. The edges of the pages marbled.

Condition: good. Rubbing of the binding. Damage (strong fold) of upper corner of back cover. Some yellowing, browning of pages. Folds and tears on the margins of several pages. The last page (299) with restoration with old paper, with minimal damage to the text

Book from the collection (2 exlibrises) of Mieczyslaw Dunin-Wąsowicz (1849 - 1913), pharmacist, chemist, pioneer of bromatological research. He was an honorary member of the Warsaw Pharmaceutical Society (1879), a member of the Galician Pharmacy Society and the Physiographic Commission of the AU (1880); he was one of the founders of the M. Copernicus Society of Polish Naturalists and a member of the Tatra Society. D.-W. was also the author of historical treatises, co-founder of the Polish Scientific Heraldic Society in Lviv, and an outstanding expert in heraldry. [bio after gigancinauki.pl].

Very rare.