NIEMCEWICZ - COLLEGE OF HISTORICAL MEMORIES O DAWNEJ POLSZCZE 1838 vol. 1-4. unsigned binding by Antoni Oehl

NIEMCEWICZ Julian Ursyn

A COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL MEMOIRS ABOUT OLD POLAND

From manuscripts and works in different languages about Poland published and with original letters of kings and eminent people of our country.

New edition by Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz.

t. 1-4 [volume 5 is missing for the set].

Leipzig 1838-1839, Nakładem i Drukiem Breitkopf I Haertel, pp. [4], 363, [4], 355, [4], 364; [4], 379; format 13.5 x 22.5cm.

Rich source material for the history of Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries (diaries, accounts, universals, letters, diaries), among others: Description of Poland, Lithuania and Prussia in the 15th century by Aeneas Silvius; Diary of the Warsaw Sejm after the death of Sigismund I; Beginning of Orzelski's diary; Funeral of King Sigismund Augustus; The earliest diplomas, treaties, tributes of fiefs, letters of popes, Polish kings, etc. from r. 1067 to Sigismund Augustus; Description of the Departure of Queen Bona; Memoirs Relating to the Reign of Sigismund III; Letters of Sigismund III; On Crown Insignia and Jewels; Entry of Polish Deputies to Paris; Description of the Polish Ukraine by Beauplan; Description of Warsaw as it Was in 1643; Letters to Queen Bona; Letters of Sigismund I to his wife and Stanislaw Gorski; Extracts from various diaries and descriptions; Legations, universals, letters from the 16th and 17th centuries; Description of the Battle of Parkany; Diary of Boguslaw Maszkiewicz 1643-1649; Diary of the Vienna occasion by Mikolaj Dyakowski.

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz coat-of-arms Rawicz, pseud. and code name: Anonymous; Ivan Vasilewicz, officer in the Moscow army; J.N.; J.U.N.; J.Ur.N.; Julius Orion; Mośko Jankiele (born February 16, 1758 in Skoki, Polesie, died. May 21, 1841 in Paris) - Polish playwright, novelist, poet, historian, memoirist, publicist, translator, freemason, deputy grand speaker of the Grand National Lodge of the Great Polish East in 1781, member of the Commission of National Education in 1791-1792.

HARDCOVER FULL LEATHER OF THE PERIOD, RICH EMBOSSING ON THE SPINE AND BOTH FACES, PRESERVED FRONT AND BACK SOFT BOOKLET COVERS, CARD TRIMS SPOTTED

Unsigned binding by Antoni Oehl (ca. 1776-1846) - a bookbinder first employed by the Czartoryskis in Puławy, resided in Warsaw from 1812. From his workshop on the corner of Rymarska and Leszno came out luxurious safian bindings, later described as Belvedere style. (Lit: "Varsavian Sessions. Warsaw Bookbinding," p. 40).

BDB-/ condition, portrait missing, small initial in each volume, edge rubbing, paper browning in places