WROTNOWSKI Felix, History of the 1831 uprising in Volhynia, Podolia, Ukraine, Samogitia and Lithuania.

History of the 1831 uprising in Volhynia, Podolia, Ukraine, Samogitia and Lithuania.

Volumes 1-2 (in 1 vol.). Volume 1: The uprising in Volhynia, Podolia and Ukraine in 1831, described according to the accounts of the commanders and co-participants of the uprising. Volume 2: A collection of memoirs about the Lithuanian uprising in 1831. Leipzig 1875. by F. A. Brockhaus. 8, pp. X, 353, XII, 255, psk. period binding, gilt lettering on spine.
On the front pasteboard the coat-of-arms exlibris of Mier and Bończa and the imprint of Radziechów. Coat of arms stamps "Radachowska Library". On the cover a library sticker - "Bibljoteka Radziechowska". Good condition. Contains, among others: Rus in subdivisions. First news beyond the Bug River about the uprising in Warsaw. Jenerał Dwernicki's action in Volhynia. Excerpts from the manuscript titled: Important details of the events of the 1831 uprising, by a citizen of the Telszew district zerbrane. Memoirs of a citizen of the Upitskiy district, Memoirs of the uprising of the Kovno district, Uprising of the oszmiański, zawilejskiy, wilejskiy, dziśnieńskieo districts. Wrotnowski Feliks (1803-1871), publicist, translator, editor;
participant in the November Uprising; after its fall, he stayed in Paris, taking an active part in the life of the Polish emigration; he belonged, among other things, to the Circle of God's Cause, edited "Dziennik Narodowy", in which he published, among other things, a discussion and fragments of a translation of "The Slavic Literature" by A. Wrotnowski. Slavonic Literature by A. Mickiewicz, 1854-60 head of the Polish Library in Paris.