[IWANOWSKI Eustachy] - Memories of years gone by. Eu-go Helenijusza [pseud.] T. 1-2. Cracow 1876. circulation of the author, Druk. W. Kornecki. 8, pp. XIII, [14]-601, [2], fols. pp. 2; 704, 711-714. bound in period fl.
Maliszewski 1145. Volume 2 lacks pages 705-710 and 715-717, [2] at the end. Bindings rubbed and slightly damaged - not uniform - volume 1 cloth in black, volume 2 in red. Local stains inside. In volume 1 bibliot. stamp. "Ivanovsky's works have been and are often cited in historical literature, as they cite or refer to archival material that is unavailable or does not exist today" (PSB). An extensive work containing the author's memoirs, biographical and historical material relating to Kiev and Lithuanian lands, genealogical information and unknown details from the lives of families living in the Eastern Borderlands. Includes, among others. - Volume 1: "On the oppression of the Church and the change of the Catholic spirit after the partition of the country", "Some details about the Masonic lodges", "Drawings, images, (portraits), of some of the more prominent persons who had already lived in the 19th century, from the southern provinces of Poland, and especially from the Kiev province, and recollections of several families", "The Czaccy", "About the College and Academy in Polotsk", "The Cistercian-Cartus-Benedictine Congregation in Lithuania", "About the miraculously famous image of N. Maryi Panny in Żyrowice"; volume 2: "Zaręba, lieutenant of the national cavalry", "Memoirs of Stanislaw August", "Memoirs of Niemcewicz", "Stanislaw Zwierzchowski, non-commissioned officer of the Polish army of 1831", "Tomasz Zan", "Some details about the Siberian exile", "Memoirs from the private life of an old nobleman", "Mulik, a band leader in Ukraine".