L. ZIENKOWICZ - Die Trachten des polnischen Volkes. 1841. with 39 color plates of regional costumes.

ZIENKOWICZ Leon - Die Trachten des polnischen Volkes nebst einer genauen Beschreibung seiner Sitten, Gebraeuche und Gewohnheiten. Ein pittoreskes Werk. Paris 1841; in der Polnischen Buchhandlung. 4, p. [4], 120, plate 39, nut k. 2. psk. period binding.
Banach 308. minor local browning of first pages, very good condition. Ex-libris "Bibliothéque de Gustave Moeder." Gilt on spine, signboard with titlepage, blind-stamped rosettes. Complete piece containing 39 hand-colored lithographs depicting Polish costumes and uniforms. The drawings were made by Jan Lewicki. Titles of the plates in Polish, below also in French, German and English. Cont. in order: Polish nobility in old clothing, Krakowiacy (festive clothing), Krakowiacy (everyday clothing), Tatra Highlanders, Mazurians, Kuyavians, Beggar from Kiev area, Kurpie, Greater Poland, Sitarians from Zamosc, Lublinians on wedding day, Circumnavigators in Sandomierskie, Podlasie-Masurians, Podlasie-Russians, Pinchuks, Residents of Bialowieza Forest, Lithuanians, Evening virgins near Minsk, Villagers from around Grodno, Zmudzinians, Volhynians, Podolans, Ukrainians, Bourgeois from Lviv, Carpathian highlanders in the Foothills, Skawiniaks, Hutsuls, Wiesniaczki from Jaroslav, Kijacy from Podgórze, Czumak on the road, Boykos, Szkalmierzacy, Proszowiacy, Polish Army - Staff, Polish Army - Ulans and horse shooters, Polish Army - Karabinijer [....], Polish Army - Artillery, Polish Army - Infantry, Polish insurgents of 1831. The version of the album presented here with German text appears on the antiquarian market much less frequently than the French variant.
"The lack of a scientific study of national costumes on Polish soil was decided to be filled in the 1930s by the émigré writer and publisher Leon Zienkowicz (1808-1870), who prepared the album 'Les costumes du peuple polonais,' for which he himself wrote an extensive and detailed costume commentary. The illustrations for this publication were made in lithography by Jan Nepomucen Lewicki (1795-1871), a graphic artist who (like the author of the text), as a result of the threat of arrest for participation in the November Uprising, had to leave his homeland and settled in France. The first edition of the work took place in 1838 in Strasbourg, subsequent editions were published in the following years already in Paris" (A. Swietoslawska "Costumes Polonais. Graphic Albums with Representations of Polish Folk Costumes from the 1st Half of the 19th Century" in Art of Costume, Strobe in Art (War.-Toruń 2016, p. 280)).