Author: MOŚCICKI Henryk
Title: Monuments to fighters for independence 1794-1863.
- Place of issue: Warsaw
- Year of publication: 1929
- Publisher: Ministry of Public Works
- Number of pages: 325, [2].
- Illustrations, maps: illustrations in the text
- Size: 32.5 x 26 cm
- Binding: publisher's hard cloth, gilt on the front, decorative coverings
- Condition: minor rubbing/soiling of binding, nice pieces
- ISBN: ---
Description:
The publication is a rich iconographic material, presenting 335 photos of memorial objects, such as graves, monuments and epitaphs. They commemorate the participants of the struggle for independence during the Kościuszko Uprising, the Napoleonic Wars, the November Uprising, the events of 1846-1848, the January Uprising (with particular attention to monuments preserved in the former Eastern Borderlands). To make the text easier to work with, the authors have included location maps in a separate section, as well as detailed indexes to help navigate the content.
