Author: STRASZEWICZ Giuseppe
Title: I Polacchi della rivoluzione del 29 novembre 1830 ossia ritratti dei personaggi che hanno figurato nell'ultima guerra dell'indipendenza polacca col Fac-Simile della loro firma eseguiti in litografia sopra disegni originali dai piu distinti artisti: SS. Grevedon, Maurin, Vigneron, Belliard, Deveria, Bazin, Desmadryl, Lecler, Desmaisons, Kuroskwi [!], officiale polacco, ec., ec. Accompagnati da una biografia per ... Prima Edizione Italiana. T. 1-2.
- Place of publication: Capolago
- Year of publication: 1833-1834
- Publisher: Tipografia e Libreria Elvetica
- Number of pages: 543; 272
- Illustrations, maps: f. plates: T.1- 57; T.2- 29 (lithographs)
- Size: 23 cm
- Binding: hardback half-leather from the epoch, gilt on the spine, decorative paper on the faces
- Condition: minor rubbing of binding, 9 engravings and 85 pages of text missing in vol. 2
Description:
Banach 220. images of Polish women and men who took an active part in the November Uprising. The introduction is followed by biographies of the insurgents. Each biography is accompanied by a plaque with a lithographic portrait and a facsimile of the signature.
Includes:
t.1: Pac, Potocka, Łukasiński, Zan, Grużewski, Sierawski, Umiński, Wołłowicz and Przecławski, Sowiński, Bieliński, Tomaszewska, Kaszyc, Sołtyk, Małachowski, Ostrowski, Hoffman, Mycielski, Niemojowski, Biernacki, Chłopicki, Różycki, Jasieński, Staniewicz, Wołowski, Grothus, Dwernicki, Matuszewicz, Morawski, Giedroyć, Tyszkiewicz, Mycielski, Raszanowicz, Plichta, Prosor, Dembiński, Stempowski, Barzykowski, Ledóchowski, Soroka, Rybiński, Bem, Nowosielski, Niemojowski, Szlegel, Szymanowski, Ostrowski, Małachowski, Zaliwski, Szemist, Herubowicz, Loga, Brzezański, Tyszkiewicz, Zienkowicz, Szretter, Janowicz, Szyrma-Lach;
t.2: Czacki, Stecki, Wysocki, Kamiński, Blendowski, Sobański, Plater, Oginski, Czerski, Sznayde, Różycki, Oginska, Mielżyński, Załuski, Ledóchowski, Sczaniecka, Zwierkowski, Niemcewicz, Morawski, Chłapowski, Lelewel, Olizar. Parzewski, Jerzmanowski, Zawisza and Borzewski, Skrzynecki, Plater, Orlikowski, and 1 group portrait
Jozef Straszewicz (1801-1838) - major, took part in the uprising, then after its fall got through Lithuania to France. In 1833-1836 in Paris he was one of the editors of the journal "Le Polonais" and a member of the Society of Polish Literature.
Piece from the book collection of Leon Drogoslaw Truszkowski landowner and collector (includes his stamp with a baronial crown and ex-libris on the front pastedown).
