HANDELSMAN Marceli. Adam Czartoryski, 1-3 complete (in 4 volumes). Prepared for publication by Stefan Kieniewicz. Warsaw 1948-1950. published by the Warsaw Scientific Society. pp. XX, 334, plates 10; [8], 384, plates 10; [8], 756 (total pagination of vol. 3); 25.5cm.
Original soft binding. Good-/excellent+ condition, vol.1-2: cover soiling, signature, block almost in parts, vol.3: library stickers/stamps.
Circulation of vol.1-2: 1100 copies. Outlay: vol.3 400egz. The most comprehensive biography of A. Czartoryski.
Marceli Handelsman (1882-1945) - Polish lawyer and historian of Jewish origin, medievalist, historian of modern and recent history, methodologist of history, one of the most prominent Polish historians of the first half of the 20th century; freemason.
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski prince of his own coat of arms, pseud. "Toulouzan" (1770-1861) - Polish statesman, foreign minister of the Russian Empire in 1804-1806, grand chamberlain of the royal court of Nicholas I Romanov in 1830, vice-president of the Provisional Government of the Kingdom of Poland in 1815, senator-voivode of the Kingdom of Poland (1815), president of the National Government of the Kingdom of Poland (1831), president of the Senate, writer, poet, patron of art and culture, was awarded the Order of the White Eagle (in 1815), grand treasurer of the Catholic Grand Priorate in Russia of the Knights of Malta in 1798. Founder of the political conservative-liberal camp Hotel Lambert.
