IMCEWICZ Julian Ursyn, Historical Songs.

Historical Chants.

With music, engravings, and a short appendix of a collection of Polish historiæ, by (...), S. S., Member of the T. K. W. P. N., the Akad. of Vilna, the Tow. of Sciences in Cracow, the Tow. of Philosophy in Philadelphia, and the Tow. of the Military in West-Point, America. 5th ed. Lvov 1849, Nakł. Kajetan Jablonski. 8, pp. XVI, 312, 33 plates with notes ( including 1 double-page inscribed), 21 plates in lithograph (lithographed by M. Jablonski and M. A. Witek in Prag), period leather binding
Traces of non-moisture and soiling, name stamp, last 4 pages of text missing, 1 plate with notes and 12 plates in lithograph; rubbing of binding. On title page woodcut - image of the Eagle from the Jagiellonian Chapel in Cracow. Lithographs in yellow. A cycle of historical and patriotic songs, creating an idealized vision of Poland's past. Niemcewicz wrote his work in 1808 - 1810, commissioned by the Society of Friends of Science, of which he himself became president in 1827. It consists of 32 works dedicated to major historical figures (mainly rulers) and significant events in Polish history.