HANDELSMAN Marceli, Adam Czartoryski.

Adam Czartoryski.

Volumes 1-3 (in 4 volumes). Warsaw 1948-1950. publ. Warsaw Scientific Society. 8, pp. XX, 334; [8], 384; [8], 382; [8], 383; [5], 386-756, illustrations on plates, wraps broch. Publisher. historical treatises founded ... Vol. XXIII-XXV.
Vol. 1-2: Circulation. 1100 copies. Vol. 3 parts I-II: Mintage of 600 copies. Rubbing, edgewear, non. soiling and discoloration of covers, non. loss on spine of vol. 2. on pre-title page of vol. 1 handwritten dedication "To X. prof. Żywczyński the last work of her late husband Marceli is offered by Jadwiga Handelsmanowa, Warsaw 15 IX 48 r." and a pasted-in clipping with the author's image. Underlining and notations in pencil and crayon, own signatures. In vol. 3 parts I-II covers loose. Ex. uncut, some pages in vol. 3 part II uncut. Good condition. Adam Jerzy Czartoryski prince (1770- 1861) - Polish statesman, foreign minister of the Russian Empire in the years (1804-1806), vice-president of the Provisional Government of the Kingdom of Poland, senator-voivode of the Kingdom of Poland (1815), president of the National Government of the Kingdom of Poland (1831), president of the Senate, writer, poet, patron of art and culture, awarded the Order of the White Eagle.