Knowledge of Poland. Parts 1-3 [in 5 vols.](nice publishing set)

Wiedza o Polsce/ collective work/ Warsaw (ca. 1930)/ Publishing House "Wiedza o Polsce"/ first edition/ clothbinding/ pp.[4], 326, [2]; [6], 327-780, [2]; [2], 262, [2]; [2], 263-683, [3]; [4], 446, [2]/ each volume with numerous illustrations, photographs in the text and fold-out tables/ very good condition- gently rubbed binding edges, small dent on the side edge of the front cover of vol.II slight soiling of bindings in places, slight soiling in text in places. A nice publisher's set.

Artistic publisher's binding, red decorated cloth. Beautifully decorated binding faces with gilded titulature in the central part, Polish Eagle, images of orders, coats of arms of cities and heraldic symbolism, all closed compositionally with gilded bordiur; on the back covers blind-stamped eagle and decorated bordiurs; spines with gilded decorations and titulature

A monumental work of the interwar period bearing witness to the pride in the restoration of an independent country. A compendium of knowledge about Poland, created in cooperation with prominent scholars; Marian Gumowski Jan Bystron, Kazimierz Tymieniecki, Oskar Halecki, Jozef Kostrzewski, among others.

T.1: Anthropology, prehistory of the Polish lands, origin of the Aryan peoples, primitive Slavs, political history of Piast and Jagiellonian Poland.

T.2: Political history of Poland from 1572 to the present, history of the Polish system; heraldry, numismatics, sphragistics, and economic history.

T.3: History and the oldest monuments of the Polish language, history of Polish literature (until 1863).

T.4: History of literature (from 1863 to the present), history of theater, construction, sculpture, painting.

T.5: Geography and ethnography of Poland.