ŻEGOTA PAULI - Galician Antiquities, Lvov 1840, by the author, set of plates, VERY RARE!

Galician Antiquities collected and published by Zegota Pauli, in Lviv 1840, by the author, f. 13 x 21cm [text], 14.5 x 22.5cm [plates with drawings], edition of 300 pieces, p. 47, k. plates XX [complete], VERY RARE!

"Galician Antiquities" was published from 1838 to 1840 in the form of notebooks, then it was published in one volume [1840]. The main initiator of publishing "Antiquities" was "Pan na Medyka" Gwalbert Józef Pawlikowski, to whom the grateful author dedicated his work. The illustrative material consists of tables made by Maciej Bogusz Zygmunt Stęczyński [1814-1890]. The text includes descriptions of grave monuments, silhouettes of more or less famous historical figures, armor, tools, seals.

ZEGOTA PAULI (Ignacy Pauli) [1814-1895] Polish ethnographer and historian, imprisoned in 1835/36 for contacts with the patriotic conspiratorial organization of Lviv youth. He worked as librarian and conservator of the Potocki archives in Cracow, then at the Jagiellonian Library under the supervision of Karol Estreicher.

no binding, all put in replacement hardcover, pages with text in smaller format than boards, preserved protective tissue paper, boards loose, pencil description on title page, text part in more than good condition, boards with minor soiling