Alexander Bronikowski - Jan Kazimierz Vasa Prison in France
Historical novel of the XVII century
Edition I
Warsaw 1828
Volume II
Hardcover; semi leather from the epoch. Title page missing. yellowing of paper, traces of soaking. Block consistent. On the first page a notation dated 1908 " I received this book about 200 years old as an inheritance from my grandmother Majkowska ".
Aquatint byFrederick Christopher Dietrich according to a drawing by Jan Felix Piwarski, with a view of the Sisteron castle where John Casimir Vasa was imprisoned for half a year in 1639.
Overall good condition. Very rare.
Number of pages: 392
Format : 115 x 180 [mm].
" A novel by Alexander Bronikowski (1783-1834), who wrote exclusively in German and whose almost all works were published in Polish translation. In his biography included in Walery Baginski's work, "Typy wiarusów napoleońskich", the author writes: "generous and unprincipled in spending, he often borrowed larger sums of money without any prospect of repayment, with the result that he sat for several or more months at a time in prison for debt, and it was there that he wrote the largest part of his novels."
