Joachim Lelewel's bibliographical books of two in which two works by Jerzy Samuel Bandtke "History of the printing houses of Cracow" and "History of the library of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow" were taken apart and multiplied, and a catalog of Polish incunabula vol. I - II in 1 volume, published and printed by Józef Zawadzki, Vilnius 1823 -1826, dimensions 14.5 x 22 cm. Edited by Jerzy Samuel Bandtke. reprinted by Hieronim Wilder, Warsaw 1927. set of plates! Preserved loose original covers. Nice MillaArte half-leather slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Marbled boards.
18 fold-out boards. The reprint edition was made by photochemigraphic method.
Pre-war reprint, published by a prominent Polish antiquarian, from the Vilnius edition of Józef Zawadzki. A pioneering work in bibliography and book studies. Lots of news about prints, manuscripts, graphics, librarianship. On plates reproductions of engravings, fonts, filigrees, prints of XV and XVI century. rare!