LESZCZYC Zbigniew. Herby of the Polish nobility. With a foreword by Wacław Gąsiorowski. Vol. 1-2. Poznań 1908. published by Antoni Fiedler. Pp. [4], 232; [4], 233-351, f. plates 88 (chromolithographs with images of coats of arms); 26cm.
Both volumes with plates bound together in period half leather, gilt on spine, decorative paper on faces. More than good condition, minor rubbing of the binding, signature on the pre-title page/ A LITTLE piece!
A collection of coats of arms of the nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tables rebound at the Artistic-Chemigraphic Department of Antoni Fiedler. In the introduction by W. Gąsiorowski, we read: "This book is the first heraldic publication, rendering the coats of arms of the Polish nobility in all their colors, in all their colorful splendor...and may these splendid shields of arms shine as an example to the new Odrowążs, the new Topors, the new Boleszczyzna." An alphabetical index at the end.
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