KRAUSHAR- HISTORICAL AND LITERARY CARDS published 1894.

KRAUSHAZ Alexander (1843-1931)

HISTORICAL AND LITERARY PAGES

Krakow 1894, G. Gebethner i Spółka, pp [6] 192, format: 12x17 cm

INTERWAR HALF CLOTH HARDCOVER, SIGNBOARD ON SPINE

Includes:

Family drama; Piotr Wężyk Vidawski; Jakóba Smiarowski's message to Bohdan Khmelnytsky; Literary profiles from the recent past.

"In the midst of the bloody historical tragedy of the second half of the 17th century, bearing the name of the Cossack rebellion, amidst those scenes of licentiousness of the wildest animals of passion against the sanctified laws of political and social existence of Poland, amidst the physical and moral defeats suffered by the armed force of the Republic, broken and scattered by the Cossacks and Tartars in a long series of battles, beginning with the bloody trial at Yellow Waters, up to the storming of Lvov (...)". Excerpt from "Jakóba Smiarowski's message to Bohdan Khmelnytsky".

Condition DB/small scuffs, rusty spots on extreme k., on p.tit. stamp "exlibris"