Jankowski Czeslaw - Oshmyany district parts 1-4 [complete], St. Petersburg 1896/1900

Czeslaw Jankowski - Oshmyany district - materials for the history of the land and people.

Complete - part I- IV in two volumes.

Bookstore K. Grendyszynskig

Petersburg, published in - 1896/ 1900

Volume I : part 1 Chapters: - Introductory word , Some dates and figures ; Oshmiana 1385 -1830 ; from Oshmiana to Borun ; from Oshmiana to Sól ; Around Graużyszki ; Holshanska land ; Among the Tatar seats ; Vishnev, Bienica ;West of Oshmiana ; From the diary of R. 1809 -1814; Additions ; Illustrations and tables.

Volume II: part 2 - Chapters : - Foreword ; Under Zabrze ; At the eastern county border ; Zalesie ; Krewo ; Oshmiany tract ; Oshmiany nobility ; Additions ; Illustrations and tables.

Part 3 - Chapters : - Introductory word; On starosthenny lands; Ive; Gasztold's once heritage; Umiastowskis' land fortune; Smorgon; Additions; Illustrations and tables.

Part 4 - Chapters : - Foreword; From Vilya to Nemunas; Complements; Index (of place names and surnames ); Illustrations and tables.

Both volumes after professional conservation preservation: ( blocks sewn anew, resealing of several pages, refreshing of covers).

Hardcover original half leather of the period. Spines beautifully embossed and gilded. Minor soiling and underpainting of individual pages.

All original, complete preserved in very good condition.

Numerous illustrations, maps and fold-out plates in the text. Each part preceded by a two-page map of Oshmyanya County.

On the title page Ex Libris : " From the Book Collection of Jan Kurczewski " - Jan Kurczewski (born June 8, 1854 in Soly, died July 30, 1916 in Vilna) - Polish priest, historian, professor of church law, preaching and church history at the seminary."

Number of pages : 391 + 286 + 8 ( Oginski's Polonaises) + 219 + 90

Format : 190 x 250 [mm].

A great rarity in the set.