LETTERS OF KING JAN III, WRITTEN TO QUEEN MARYA KAZIMIRA DURING THE EXPEDITION AT VIENNA IN 1683
Published by Edward Raczynski.
Warsaw 1824. nakładł. i druk. N. Glücksberg, k. [6], pp. IX, 235; 1 fold-out map (lithograph 27 x 27 cm), likeness of a letter card (lithograph), format 12x19.5 cm
Second edition (the first was published a year earlier) of letters of King John III Sobieski to his wife, Marie Kazimiera d'Arquien. The collection contains letters written at the time of the relief of Vienna between August (the first letter, from Gliwice) and December 1683 (the last letter, from Lubovla). A total of thirty letters (with the addition of a fragment of a letter to his mother by Prince James), including a letter in which Sobieski notifies Marysieńka of the Vienna Victory (the first page of this letter included as a lithographic print).
The work's publisher, Count Edward Raczynski (1786-1845), a Napoleonic soldier and bibliophile, is a man of outstanding merit for saving national memorabilia and cultivating the traditions of Polish statehood under the partitions.
Enclosed lithographed fold-out "Map of the march of the Polish army during the Vienna expedition of the year 1683".
HARDCOVER IN FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER. COVERS SURROUNDED BY GILT BORDERING, DECORATIVE SPINE WITH RAISED SCROLLS, IMPRESSIVE EMBOSSING AND GILDING. HAND-TINTED PAPER MARBLED ON THE ENDPAPERS, ALL PAGE EDGES MARBLED. COVER INTERIORS FINISHED WITH INTRICATE GILT EMBOSSING.
BDB-/ condition, signature of the owner, a few rust spots, A NICE piece in an EFFECTIVE binding.
