Cracow ANNUAL, edited by Stanislaw Krzyzanowski. T. 4. With 45 engrav. and 21 plates in cintype and 7 reprod. in światłodruk. Cracow 1900. published by the Society of Lovers of the History and Monuments of Cracow. 4, pp. [8], 267, [4], plates. broch.
Losses of edges of booklet covers, losses of corners of back cover, glued with paper, covers slightly soiled and cracked, on front cover own stamp and handwritten inventory number, block cracked, pieces need bookbinding treatment. Booklet cover with original color lithography by Stanislaw Wyspianski: on both sides two floral columns, on each open royal crowns, between the columns the title of the yearbook, in the lower part the annual date. Signed with a bound monogram inside the composition on the left. Volume of a yearbook published from 1898 to the present day, dedicated to the broad historical and cultural development of Krakow and its environs. The journal published articles summarizing many years of research, source texts, contributions. An indispensable source of knowledge for every lover of old Kraków. This one includes, among others: Stanisław Tomkowicz "Building of the Jagiellonian Library", Karol Potkański "Boundaries of the Bishopric of Cracow", Leonard Lepszy "Pergamenists and papermakers of Cracow in the past centuries and their products". On the plates, among other things, reproductions of 7 documents concerning the earliest history of the Jagiellonian University.
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