KOSIŃSKI -CITIES, villages and castles of Poland Volume I-IV [complete] Vilnius 1851 OPTIONS

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KOSIŃSKI Adam Amilkar

CITIES, VILLAGES AND CASTLES OF POLAND

Novels and pictures

Volumes I-IV [complete in 2 vols.]

Circulated and printed by T. Glucksberg the Bookseller and Typographer of the Vilna Naukow. District, Vilna 1851, pp.323, 376, 346, 319, format 11x16cm

HARD FURNISHED HALF-HALDED EPOCOLATE BINS, GRAINS WITH EXCLUSIVE BINS, SIGNS AND GOLDEN, HERE ALSO GOLDEN SUPEREXLIBRIS superexpress "KARWICE".

Kosiński Adam Amilkar, coat-of-arms Kozinski- novelist, heraldist, participant in the November Uprising, author of historical novels, soldier's stories, published, among others, in "Pielgrzym" or "Biblioteka Warszawska", published novels in Warsaw, Leipzig and Vilnius, later interested in heraldry, author of "Przewodnik heraldyczny" published in 1877-1885.

A collection of sketches and writings of sightseeing and remembrance.

Among other things, it contains: an extensive description of Warsaw, its monuments, its inhabitants and its societies and social life; "Journey by the Iron Railway from Warsaw to Czestochowa"; news about the Czestochowa region (Olsztyn, Klobuck, Kruszyna, Danków, Lipie and others); "Djabeł according to the imagination of our people"; "Journey by the Iron Railway from Czestochowa to the border. Poraj, Myszków, Żarki, Mierów and Bobolice"; "Siewierz, Koziegłowy, Mrzygłód, Rokitno, Łazy, Ząbkowice. Life in the countryside."

Rare in complete and uniform binding!

DB condition edge rubbing, ownership markings, paper browning

Provenance:

From the book collection of Teodor Karwicki (signatures) and Rev. Ignatius Wierobiej (stamps).

Teodor Karwicki (1804-1881), military officer, counselor, district justice of the peace, born in Karwice. Ignacy Wierobiej (1887-1970), Catholic clergyman, long-time parish priest in Hajnówka, amateur historian.