SZYDŁOWSKI, Tadeusz - Ruins of Poland : a description of the damage caused by the war in the field of art monuments on the lands of Lesser Poland and Red Ruthenia with 227 engravings and an orientation map. Warsaw ; Cracow [ca. 1919], General composition Gebethner and Wolff ; Gebethner and Sp. 29 cm, pp. VII, [1], 213, [2], map, illustrations 227 ; period binding : fawn with signboard on spine.
In Malopolska and Red Ruthenia "the life of art came to a particularly luxuriant and beautiful flowering in former centuries. This very part of Poland, rich in valuable and important monuments, suffered the greatest destruction, and the losses that occurred here will probably be the most important and most severe, and their juxtaposition will already give an idea of the whole." - the author (1883-1942) - art historian, conservator of monuments, the first state conservator of monuments in the Polish lands, the creator of the basis of their inventory, professor of universities in Vilnius and Krakow, arrested by the Germans in the "Sonderaktion Krakau". Detailed descriptions, numerous illustrations of monuments. Dirt on the covers, cracking of the covers in the place of their bending, lack of preface page, good condition.
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