The Roman Missal with the addition of Vesper services. With a handwritten dedication by Ferdinand Machay to Franciszek Goc.

[MACHAY Ferdinand]. The Roman Missal with the addition of Vesper services. Compiled by. Fr. G. Lefebvre benedictine. Polish translation corrected by S. Swietlicki and H. Nowacki. Lophem lez Bruges, Abbey of St. Andrew [imprim. 1931]. 16d, pp. 1934, 78, [2], 25, [1], 63, [1]. Original leather binding, gilt trim.
Very good condition. On the front pastedown a handwritten dedication by Ferdinand Machay to Franciszek Goc, in a rather unusual form: " F. - F." (meaning "To Franciszek - Ferdynand"). Below is the date of December 24, 1933. At the end, a "Polish Patronal" with separate pagination, and two note additions.
F. Machay (1889-1967) - Catholic priest, inflate, theologian, as well as politician and independence activist, publicist, publisher; organizer of activities aimed at annexing Spisz and Orawa to Poland, in 1944-1967 he was archpriest of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
F. Goc (1893-1988) - studied at the Jagiellonian University from 1915 to 1919 and graduated as an agricultural engineer. From 1920 he worked in the Department of Horticulture at the Jagiellonian University. In 1934 he received a doctorate in agriculture from the Faculty of Agriculture at Jagiellonian University on the basis of a dissertation entitled. "Variability of Forms and Anomalies in Primula obconica Hance," while he received the title of associate professor in 1955 on the basis of a monographic study entitled. "Cultivation of hazel trees." After the war he worked in Wroclaw, being, among other things, head of the Department of Horticulture at the Higher School of Agriculture in 1945-1948 and 1953-1963. He was the author of studies on horticulture, popularizer of knowledge in this subject, organizer and lecturer of courses and training for growers both, in the interwar and postwar years.