Author: SOKALSKI Bronisław
Title: Sokalskiy district under geographical, ethnographic, hsitorical and economic aspects.
- Place of issue: Lviv
- Year of publication: 1899
- Publisher: People's Printing House. Published by Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki.
- Number of pages: XVI, 496
- Illustrations, maps: illustrations in the text, "Map of the Sokal district" letter A. Przyszlak Lviv
- Size: 23 cm
- Binding: hardback semi leather from the epoch, gilt on the front and spine, signboards, decorative paper on the front and back boards
- Condition: minor rubbing/soiling of binding
- ISBN: ---
Description:
Work crowned with first prize at the 1894 competition of the Dzieduszycki Museum in Lviv.
"(...) on the basis ofmaterials collected with the help of teachers and students from Sokal and the surrounding area, in the most extensive, ethnographicpart of the work, he described thelivingconditions ,occupations,type of construction, types of food,clothing,family and annual customs and rituals, beliefs and superstitions of theinhabitants. Healsoincludeda characterization of thefolk dialect (witha glossary of words), as well as texts of Polish and Ukrainianfairy tales andfolk songs." (PSB, T. 40)
Sokalski Michał Bronisław, alias Bronek of Olesko, M. B. Krzywda (1858-1929) - folk school teacher, educational activist, amateur ethnographer, writer.
Sokal district - a district in Lvov province, existing during the Second Republic, with its seat in Sokal.
Very rare!
