KRAUSHAR - THE KINDNESS OF KRZYSZTOF OF ARCISZEWSKI vol. 1-2 [complete in 1 vol.] WIRED

KRAUSHAR Alexander

HISTORY OF KRZYSZTOF OF ARCISZEW ARCISZEWSKI

ADMIRAL AND COMMANDER OF THE HLENDRAS IN BRAZIL, SENIOR OVER THE CROWN CANNON DURING THE REIGN OF RULISLAW IV AND JAN KAZIMIERZ. 1592-1656

Vol. 1-2 [complete in 1vol.]

St. Petersburg 1892-3, Bookstore Br. Rymovich, St. Petersburg 1893, pp [4], 388, [1], frontispiece, 2k .plates folded ; [4], 401, frontispiece, 1k. plates folded, format 12x18.5 cm

Krzysztof Arciszewski coat of arms Prawdzic (1592- 1656) - artillery general of the Dutch army and the army of the Republic of Poland, poet and writer. For a murder committed with his brother (on Kasper Jaruzel Brzeźnicki, a palestrant whose alleged machinations led the Arciszewski family to ruin) he was sentenced to infamy and banishment and exiled from the country.

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HARDCOVER FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER COVERS SURROUNDED BY BLIND-STAMPED BORDERS, SPINE WITH DEEP EMBOSSING AND GILT. ALL PAGE EDGES STAINED. INTERIORS OF COVERS FINISHED WITH INTRICATE BLIND EMBOSSED BORDERS.

BDB condition/ DECORATIVE piece.