Count Krasiński Walerian - Zarys Dziejów powstania i upadku reformacji w Polsce - komplet T.I-III, Warsaw 1903 [ cabinet condition, Kantor binding, map of Evangelical churches ].

Count Krasinski Walerian - Outline of the History of the Rise and Fall of the Reformation in Poland -.

Complete T.I-III, Published by Rev. Jul. Bursche.

Published by Zwiastun Ewangeliczny, Warsaw 1903 - 1905

Hardcover, decorative cloth with gilt and embossing on the faces and spine, blocks consistent, pages clean. - Cabinet condition, near perfect.

Unsigned binding from the Warsaw bookbinding workshop of Adolf Kantor.

Numerous illustrations in the text, at the end of the third volume a large fold-out map : Former Poland in terms of the Evangelical Church [59 x 79 cm lithograph by W. Główczewski in Warsaw].

Number of pages : pp. [4], V, [1], 254; [4], VI, [1], 252; [4], III, [1], 263, [1],

Format : 16 x 23 [cm].

One of the most important works for the history of the Reformation in Poland, written by Count Walerian Krasinski (1795-1855), historian, political activist. In the last part a source appendix "Protestant churches and Senators in former Poland " compiled by Henryk Merczyng (1860-1916).

A rarity in an ornate period binding and in such excellent state of preservation.