(PADEREWSKI Ignacy Jan. AUTOGRAPH). Dictionnaire des Antiuites Chretiennes....

(PADEREWSKI Ignacy Jan. AUTOGRAPH). Dictionnaire des Antiuites Chretiennes....

Par M. L`Abbe Martigny. Paris 1865. libraire de L. Hachette... 25.3 x 16.5 cm, pp. [8], VIII, 676, figs. in the text, publisher's publisher's age-toned cloth.
On title page handwritten signature "I J Paderewski".
Binding: red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some rubbing of binding, rust spots on pages in places. Good condition.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) - Polish pianist, composer, independence activist, statesman and politician. From 1919 he served as Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland. Paderewski was a graduate of the Institute of Music (later the Warsaw Conservatory). He received, among other awards, the Order of the White Eagle, the French Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and the title of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. Great rarity.