Author: KORZON Tadeusz
Title: The internal history of Poland during the reign of Stanislaus Augustus (1764-1794), 1-6 complete [in 3 vols.]
- Place of publication: Cracow/Warsaw
- Year of publication: 1897-1898
- Publisher: L. Zwolinski & S-ki Bookstore/Nakł. Rev. T. Paprocki & S-ki
- Number of pages: 513, [2]; 428, [1]; 491, [1]; 339, [1]; 298, [1]; 392,
- Illustrations, maps: numerous illustrations in the text, on separate plates, and fold-out, including color, fold-out maps.
- Size: 22.5 cm
- Binding: hardback half leather binding of the period, gilt on the spine, decorative lining, bookmark in the form of a ribbon
- Condition: minor rubbing of the binding, very nice piece!
Description:
Second edition The most outstanding work of Tadeusz Korzon (1839-1918), historian, researcher of modern history. The most complete study in Polish historical literature of the reign of Stanislaw August Poniatowski. The work is editorially impressive, decorated with numerous portraits, statistical tables, plans, facsimiles of documents, likenesses of coins and banknotes, some of the plates in chromolithography, depicts types of armies of the period and coins.It also contains a index of persons and authorities in vol. 6.
A monumental work, representing an epoch [...] in Polish modern historiography (S. Askenazy in "Portraits of Polish scholars". Krakow 1974).