MENDELSONOWA Maria - Memoirs of Zofia Kowalewska. Cracow [1911].

MENDELSONOWA Maria - Memories of Zofia Kowalewska. Cracow 1911 Bookstore D. E. Friedlein.

Format:23.5cm. Pages:[4], 127, [5], portrait 1, numerous illustrations in text. Secondary cover: fawn with gilt on spine, publisher's booklet cover with illustration preserved.

Posthumous edition of memoirs about Zofia Kovalevskaya [1850-1891] - a brilliant Russian mathematician of Polish descent, author, among other things, of the novel "Nihilistka", the printing of which was forbidden by the Russian censorship of the time [it was not published until 1928]. Maria Mendelsonowa [1850-1909], activist in the Polish and international socialist movement, publicist and writer, privately a friend of Zofia Kowalewska.

[Maliszewski 3733.]