PRZEZDZIECKI Renaud - Varsovie / Warsaw with 170 illustrations in the text and 32 engravings on plates, second edition

VARSOVIE avec 170 illustrayons en texte et 32 gravures hors texte / Warsaw with 170 illustrations in the text and 32 engravings on plates - Rajnold [Renaud} Przezdziecki, "Biblioteka Polska", Warsaw, f. 17.5 x 25cm, pp. 388

original publisher's booklet cover preserved, cover soiling, otherwise center in more than good condition

PRZEZDZIECKI Rajnold [1884-1955] - Polish diplomat and historian, from 1913 count by the grant of Nicholas II Romanov. He owned estates in Lithuania, Tyzenhaus, the Palace in Postawy with the Library of the Przezdziecki Ordinance of 60,000 volumes and a palace in Warsaw, and was the founder of the existing 193-21 Ordynacja Hr. Przezdzieckich. He did not show up at the funeral of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski [he served as deputy director of diplomatic protocol] for which he was punished by being transferred to the state of inactivity, and from 1936 to the state of retirement.