Plate from a copy of le costumes du peuple polonais suivis d'une description exacte de ses moeurs, de ses usages et de ses habitudes. Ouvrage pittoresque. By leon zienkowicz (paris: la librarairie polonaise, 1841, first edition). Offered for sale in 2019 and described as "large 4to, modern cloth gilt; title, dedication, pp. (ii) + 125 + (2) (index & list of plates), 37 (of 39) lithographs with fine original colour heightened with gum arabic. Some toning of paper [. . ] the plates, each titled in polish, french, german and english, are mostly after jan nepomucen lewicki (1795-1871), another exile. They were lithographed by simon in strasbourg and have exquisite original hand colour. ". Date: 1841.
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