GRABOWSKI Ambroży (Autograf), Dawne zabytki miasta Krakowa. Reminders of the past about some ancient customs of the Cracow townspeople.

Old monuments of the city of Cracow. Reminders of the past about some of the ancient customs of the Cracow town speople.

About gates, towers and all sorts of defenses of this once capital of the country, with the addition of various information belonging to the field of souvenirs. Collected and published from manuscripts ... Justice of the Peace, member of the Tow. Nauk., burgher of Cracow. With engravings. Cracow 1850, in Druk. "Czas". 8, pp. IV, 226, [2], 2 engravings (lithograph and copperplate), wraps oryg. broch. preserved, cloth back cover.
On the back of the title page, handwritten dedication by the Author: "To Jan Kanty Rzesinski Doktor Prawy w podarku przyjacielskim składam. Ambroży Grabowski." (J. K. Rzesinski (1803-1855), lawyer, philosopher, writer, politician, associated with the Jagiellonian University, etc.). The lithograph shows a portrait of Wit Stwosz while the etching shows: Slawkowska Gate and New Gate (engraved by K.W. Kielisinski). It contains, among others, City Hall of Krakow; Gates of Krakow; Walls; News about the city armory and inventories of guild weapons; The city's Ludwisarnia and ludwisarze; Devices as to the carrying of weapons; Court painters of Polish kings; Modest table customs of the Jagiellonians; Tournaments in the market square of Krakow; About Świdnickie beer; and others. At the end of the book there is an information that "Pieces of this work are stamped 400 ". Booklet cover with scuffs, paper slightly yellowed, lithography loose, no plan. Good condition. Very rare.