ŠUHEVIČ, Volodimir - Hutsul region. Vol. 1-4 / written by Vladimir Shukhevich. Lviv 1902-1910, Museum of the...

ŠUHEVIČ, Volodimir - Hutsul region. Vol. 1-4 / written by Vladimir Shukhevich. Lviv 1902-1910, Dzieduszycki Museum in Lviv. 25 cm, pp. [2], IX, [1], 373, [3], f. t. 5 with color illustrations, map ; pp. [4], 277, [2], illustrations, notes ; pp. [4], 298, f. t. 3 with color illustrations, illustrations in text, notes ; pp. [8], 367 ; binding contemporary in 2 vols. : psk. red with gilt title on spines, raised wraps. Dzieduszycki Museum ; 6, 7, 10, 12.
Issue 1. The author (1849-1915) was a Ukrainian ethnographer, educator and publicist, an active activist and member of many cultural and scientific Ukrainian organizations in Lviv. The offered work is not only Volodymyr Shuchevych's opus magnum, to which he devoted more than 20 years of his life, but also his pioneering, most extensive and outstanding work devoted to Hutsul, in which he presented a wide panorama of the material and spiritual culture of the Hutsuls. He described the Hutsul village and daily life there, traditional crafts, rituals and customs (weddings, instruments, dances, songs, funerals), the Orthodox church, in detail about the rich ritual year, legends, tales, beliefs, healing, etc., extensive factography, the whole richly illustrated with excellent illustrative material, including photos. from nature. In a few places partly blurred, pale ownership marks (library doublet), in vol. 1 damaged margin of p. IX (without harm to text), otherwise very good condition. Rare edition of vol. 1, especially as a set.