[DMOCHOWSKI Franciszek Salezy (1801-1871)]
ANCIENT CUSTOMS AND HABITS
CUSTOMS AND HABITS OF THE GENTRY AND COUNTRY FOLK
IN POLAND AND NEIGHBORING PROVINCES
W-wa 1860, Nakładem F.S. Dmochowskiego, pp. [2] 314 [2]; format 12.5x18.5 cm
Customs of old Poles in various provinces with attention to various social strata (peasants, petty gentry, clergy, palestry, soldiers, etc.). In the content, among others: feasts and types of food, liquor, horses, carriages, superstitions and superstitions, games and entertainments, messengers, hetmans, liquor and drunkenness, baths.
Rare!
HARDCOVER FULL CONTEMPORARY DECORATIVE LEATHER.
ON THE SPINE CONVEX GILT SCROLLS, HIGHLIGHTED WITH BLIND EMBOSSED LINES, GILT TITLING. COVERS SURROUNDED BY DOUBLE BLIND AND GILT LINES, STRIKING CORNER GILDING CONNECTED BY AN INTRICATE SCRAWL.
PAGE EDGES HAND STAINED AND WAXED. LINING PAPER MARBLED IN THE SAME MANNER AND LIGHTLY VARNISHED.
INNER EDGES OF THE COVERS FINISHED WITH INTRICATE GOLD SCHLAGE.
VERY MODEST, YET ELEGANT AND IMPRESSIVE, LUXURIOUS BINDING REMINISCENT IN STYLE OF COURT BINDINGS OF THE ERA!
BDB-/ condition, few rust spots and stains, A NICE piece.
