BROEL-PLATER- COLLEGE OF MEMORIALS TO THE TALES OF POLAND vol. 1-4 [set in 2 vols.] publ. 1858 half leather

BROEL-PLATER Włodzimierz Stanisław

A COLLECTION OF MEMOIRS TO POLISH HISTORY

t. 1-4 [complete in 2 vols.]

Warsaw 1858-1859. in "Gazeta Codzienna" Printing House, pp. [4], IV, 233, III, tabl. facsim. 1 (col.); [4], II, 246, [3]; [6], 232, [6]; [4], II, 240, [2], format 14.5x22 cm

A collection of source materials for the history of Poland in the 15th-18th centuries, compiled by Wlodzimierz Stanislaw Broel-Plater - (1831-1906), collector, bibliofi la, editor.

Contains diaries, privileges, documents, constitutions, as well as letters to Polish kings and royal letters, including those about the union with Lithuania, the marriage of Sigismund Augustus, Marcin Kromer's letters about the Council of Trent, the contents of the Warsaw Confederation, materials on successive interregnums and the election of individual rulers.

Rare in a complete and uniform binding!

HARDCOVER HALF LEATHER BINDING OF THE PERIOD. FLAT SPINE WITH GILT, MARBLED CARDBOARD, PAGE EDGES DECAYED

Condition DB/ one spine spotted cracked, the other after professional restoration,rubbing of binding edges and corners, traces of removed stamps, pale trace of dampstain in the margin of some pages, rust spots [foxing] in places