WIELICZKO Maciej
POLAND IN THE YEARS OF WORLD WAR
at home and abroad. A commemorative collection of photographs and documents
Collected and arranged by.
Warsaw 1930. published by Bibljoteka Albumów i Reprodukcji, pp. 257, [1], numerous illustrations in the text, 1 folding plate; format 24 x 34 cm;
Photo album containing over 550 photographs depicting the actions of Polish soldiers on all fronts of World War I, with special emphasis on the battles of Jozef Pilsudski's Polish Legions. By the photographs comments explaining the background of the events. At the end, there is a fold-out table with the more important proclamations, announcements and decrees, such as the confiscation of metals and the suppression of labor embarrassment.
Thealbum provides extensive iconographic material for the history of Poland in the period1914-1926.
HARD PRINTED LEADING COVER OF THE EARLIER TIME, on the front cover a RELIEFED silhouette of a soldier in trenches, above a white eagle, above a gilded titulature. GILT SPINE
Condition DB/ minor abrasions of binding, k.tyt. slightly tired, also a stamp here, pages gently wavy [no traces of flooding], board glued
