GRODECKI; DĄBROWSKI; ZACHOROWSKI - DZIEJE POLSKI ŚREDNIOWIECZNEJ tom I-II [complete in 2 vols].

GRODECKI Roman, DĄBROWSKI Jan, ZACHOROWSKI Stanisław

HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL POLAND

Volume I-II [set in 2 vols.]

Kraków, 1926 Nakł. Krakowska Spółka Wydawnicza, pp. tom I - 418, tom II - 475, format 15x21 cm

HARDCOVER IN FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER, GILT MOTIF OF A CROWNED EAGLE AND A LITHUANIAN CHASE IN THE MIRROR OF THE FRONT COVER - SURROUNDED BY A MODEST SIMPLE BORDER, SPINE WITH RAISED SCROLLS, EMBOSSING AND GILDING, COVER PAGES MADE OF HAND-MARBLED PAPER. ACART TRIM DECORATED WITH THE SAME PATTERN. THE INTERIORS OF THE COVERS FINISHED IN GOLD STITCHING.

First edition!

"The History of Medieval Poland" by Roman Grodecki, Stanislaw Zachorowski and Jan Dabrowski is a classic work in Polish historiography: like "The Culture of the Renaissance in Italy" by Jacob Bruckhardt or "The Autumn of the Middle Ages" by Johann Huizinga, it does not lose with the passing of years either its scientific value, expressed in the still vivid relevance of the conclusions it also contains, or its literary content. It is a special textbook lecture on the history of medieval Poland (from its beginnings to 1506), written by three outstanding scholars, professors of the Jagiellonian University, who have taken a permanent place in the history of Polish historiography. (...)

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