TREMBECKI Stanislaw - Sophiówka...Description of Sophiówka [Vienna 1815].

Author: TREMBECKI Stanislaw

Title: Sophiówka. Poème polonais par...Traduit en vers francais par le comte de Lange, mebbre de l'Academie de Naples

• Place of publication: Vienne (Vienna)
• Year of publication: 1815
• Publisher: De I'imprimerie d'Antoine Strauss
• Number of pages: [8], X, 11-160, [2].
• Illustrations, maps: f. plates 2 (copperplate)
• Size: 32 cm
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: rubbed/soiled binding, loose pages, visible center of binding, characteristic yellowing of paper, no views of gardens

Description:

Published on handmade paper, a poem by Stanislaw Trembecki, in which the author describes the uniqueness and magnificence of the Sofijowka garden. The park and garden, which was designed by Ludwig Metzell, is located near Humania, on the Kamionka River, in what is now Ukraine. The park was founded in 1796 by Stanislaw Szczęsny Potocki for his wife Sophia Potocka and named "Sofijowka" in her honor.

It contains copperplate portraits of Stanislaw Trembecki and Louis de Lagarde, translator of the work into French.

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