Przezdziecki Aleksander - Jagiellonian Women of Poland in the XVI century - Image of the family and court of Zygmunt I and Zygmunt August - Kings of Poland.
Volume II , Jagiellonian University Printing House
Cracow 1868
Hardcover, tears and damage, loss of part of leather spine. Block consistent.
In the text 2 portrait plates - should be 3 with original photographs of Queen Katarzyna Rakuska and Sophia Jagiellonka which are reproductions of old paintings. - Rare and valued technique - "Today books with original photographs are sought after by specialized collectors, who estimate their total number worldwide at about 1,000 titles dating from 1850-1890" (J. Wiercińska "Art and Book", War. 1986, p. 132).
At the end of the book 3 plates [complete] with facsimiles of manuscripts of the Jagiellonian letters.
The last page of the table of contents is missing - number of pages : VII, 302, format : 17 x 23 [cm].
On pages Ex libris of Eugenia Radolinska, stamps of Aleksandrowicz and Henryk Hurtig's Bookstore in Kalisz.
Rarity.