SOKOLNICKI Michał - General Michał Sokolnicki 1760-1815 [Monographs in Modern History. Volume XI] [1912].

Krakow - Warsaw 1912; published by Szymon Askenazy. Series: Monographs in Modern History, vol. XI. 14.5x22.5 cm, pp. XIV, 448, (6), contemporary half-leather bookbinding, signed with MillaArte sticker, publisher's softcover preserved. Good condition (restored corner loss of back cover, isolated minimal soiling, ownership signature on title page).

Biography of Michał Sokolnicki coat of arms Nowina (1760-1816), general of the Polish and French armies, engineer, politician, participant in the Kościuszko Uprising and Napoleonic campaigns. The book was written by the general's great-uncle and namesake, Michal Sokolnicki (1880-1967), politician and diplomat, historian, doctor of philosophy: "He used for this purpose, first of all, his own abundant family archive, including the written legacy left by the general; He also used the relevant manuscripts of the Czartoryski Museum and the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow, the Ossoliński Institute and the Dzieduszycki Museum in Lvov, the Zamoyski Library in Warsaw, the archives of the Sulkowski family in Rydzyna (now in the collection of the Society of Friends of Science in Poznan), the National Museum in Rapperswil, the National Archives, the Archives of War and Foreign Affairs in Paris, the State Archives in Berlin, the National Archives in Bern. Out of his painstaking, several-year-long search for sources, he has drawn up a biographical lecture, set against a broad general background, held in distinctive, sometimes sharp lines, somewhat related to the nature of the historical figure plotted, and animated by a cordial, and in his great-grandson doubly understandable, affection for this figure. Of the contributions published in the Footnotes, the following deserve mention: Sokolnicki's memoranda to the Directory (1797), excerpts from the Cracow Inquiry (1798), a note on Sulkowski Joseph (1804?), Sokolnicki's states of service (1803, 1811), his reports (1809 and 1813)." [from Askenazi's preface].