Lot 220
[Stachowicz (Mich.)] Ubiory Woyska Krolewsko Polskiego [Costumes de l'Armee Royale Polonaise], Warsaw, 1828.
Hammer Price: £6,000
Description
[Stachowicz (Mich.)] Ubiory Woyska Krolewsko Polskiego [Costumes de l'Armee Royale Polonaise], lithograph vignette title and 47 plates, all hand-coloured, occasional minor spotting, contemporary aubergine morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, a little rubbed, [c.f. Bobins 392], small 4to, Warsaw, 1828.
⁂ Rare, with no copy traced at auction. Bobins 392 cites another work by Stachowicz under a similar title, but with only 5 plates and dated to c.1830.
Provenance: M.A. Mann (bookplate and pencil inscription to front free endpaper "Given to Major Mann by the Grand Duke Constantine 1829"); F.C. Koch of Rotterdam (bookplate).
Description
[Stachowicz (Mich.)] Ubiory Woyska Krolewsko Polskiego [Costumes de l'Armee Royale Polonaise], lithograph vignette title and 47 plates, all hand-coloured, occasional minor spotting, contemporary aubergine morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, a little rubbed, [c.f. Bobins 392], small 4to, Warsaw, 1828.
⁂ Rare, with no copy traced at auction. Bobins 392 cites another work by Stachowicz under a similar title, but with only 5 plates and dated to c.1830.
Provenance: M.A. Mann (bookplate and pencil inscription to front free endpaper "Given to Major Mann by the Grand Duke Constantine 1829"); F.C. Koch of Rotterdam (bookplate).