[dedication] GRABOWSKI Ambroży - Kraków and its environs, 1866

GRABOWSKI Ambroży: Kraków and its environs. Described historically...Edition 5, with a considerable contribution of news expanded, with 57 woodcuts, view and plan of the city.

Krakow 1866. published by D. E. Friedlein's Bookstore. pp. XI, 431, [1] woodcuts in the text, f. plate 3 (view of the city - lithograph on tint 14.2x59cm Panorama of Krakow from Krzemionki Podgórskie made by Jędrzej Brydak according to a photograph by Walery Rzewuski from 1860, city plan and the Great Altar in the Church of N. P. Mary in Cracow); 18.5cm.

Hardcover half leather from the epoch, gilt on the spine. Good condition, rubbing of the binding.

Dedication by the author to the King. Jan Summer's superintendent.

Includes: I. A brief outline of the history of ... Cracow; II. News about the state of flowering and later decline of the city of Cracow; III. Topography of the city of Cracow; IV. Academy of Cracow; V. The royal castle; VI. Churches of the city of Cracow; VII. Surroundings of the city of Cracow.

Ambroży Grabowski (1782-1868) - Polish historian, bookseller, collector, archaeologist and antiquary, author of guides to Krakow.