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Poland.- Zienkowicz (Léon Jósef)

Poland.- Zienkowicz (Léon Jósef) Les Costumes du peuple polonais suivis d'une description exacte de ses moeurs de ses usages et de ses habitudes. Ouvrage pittoresque…, FIRST EDITION, half-title, woodcut device on title, 2 leaves of music and 37 only (of 39) hand-coloured lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic by Simon after J. Lewicki and A. Wittmann, plate captions in Polish, French, German and English, hole to leaf 2 affecting text, light toning and spotting throughout, modern burgundy cloth, lacking original printed boards, [Lipperheide 1391 & K63; Solovev Kat.105, 158a; Colas, 3115], large 4to, G. Silbermann for Librairie Polonaise & Brockhaus, Paris, Strasbourg & Leipzig, 1841. *** First edition of this very rare album that shows the costume worn in various Polish regions during the Romantic period. The illustrations depict mountain dwellers from Kolomya surroundings, peasants from Wilno surroundings, beggars from Kijow surroundings, peasant women from Jaroslaw surroundings, etc. Compiled by the Polish political activist and literary critic Zienkowicz (1808-70), who fled to France during the Great Emigration, the work covers the history of Polish peoples and regional culture, also including sections on Ukraine and Lithuania.