Offered for two rare chronicles from the 16th and 17th centuries [co-bound]:
Item 1: Estr. XXIX, pp. 352-354 Stryjkowski Maciej. Która przedtym nigdy nie widziała światło. Kronika Polska Litewska, Zmodzka, y wszystkichy Rusi Kijowskiey, Moskiewskiey, Siewierskiey, Wołynskiey, Podolskiey, Podgorskiey, Podlaskiey, etc. And various cases of war and domestic, Prussian, Mazovian, Pomeranian, and other lands adjoining the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, according to the substantial and thorough abolition of certain evidence from various Historians and Authors, y Domestic, y Kiev, Moscow, Slawinsk, Liflant, Prussian, Prussian old, Hitherto Dark Cloudy night covered Chronicles, y Latopisczow Ruskich, Litewskie, Długosz Oyca Dzieiow Polskich.... Königsberg 1582. Jerzy Ostenberger.
Incomplete, pp. 651, numerous vignettes and initials (woodcuts) in the text.
Item 2: Estr. XXIX, pp. 480-483. Guagnini Alessandro. Kronika Sarmacyey Europskiey[!] : W Ktorey Sie Zamyka krolestwo Polskie [...] tudzież też Wielkie Xięstwo Lithew..., Ruskie, Pruskie, Zmudzkie, Inflantskie, Moskiewskie y część Tatarow Przez Alexandra Gwagnina [...] Pierwey roku 1578 po Lacinie wydana ; A teraz zas z przyczynienie tych Krolow, ktorych w Lacińskiegoy niemaß, Tudzież krolestw [...] Przez tegoż Authora [...] Rozdziałami na X Ksiegi krociuchno zebrana, A przez Marcina Paszkowskiego za staraniem Authorowym z Lacińskiegoy na Polskie przełożony. Kraków 1611. drukarnia Mikołaja Loba.
incomplete, pp. 56, numerous woodcuts [21], depicting images of kings, princes, rulers, and battles [Battle of Grunwald]; framed in ornate frames with rollwork ornamentation, (i.e., scroll ornamentation) complemented by bunches of flowers and fruit - a typical ornamentation for works of art of the Baroque and Mannerist periods.
[Co-opted], order:
K. 1 pen note " This Styjkowski Chronicle of the first royal edition of 1582 is a phenix of Polish bibliography, on the rarity and importance of this edition see Bendkowski histor. liter. Polish Volume 2, p. 719.- back in the days of King Stanislaw August in 1766, when the priest Bohomolec reprinted national chroniclers, and in this volume 2 of his collection and Stryjkowski in the preface to the reader writes that even in the Załuski library, an immense treasury of Polish works, there was not a complete piece of this chronicle and to reprint it he had to collect from several pieces to put together the whole piece, which proves its great rarity. Lelewel puts a price of red gold thirty on this rare chronicle. No similar library in Volhynia has this edition."...;
K. 2 title page - later;
K. 3-9 (from the Chronicle of Sarmacyey Europskiey): Book III, Part I, On the Russian Principalities and Their Nation;
K. 10-30 (from Chronicle of Sarmacyey Europskiey): A brief collection of the Polish Chronicle;
Due to the fact that these are single pieces of pages sewn inconsistently with the pagination I will use the example of a piece from the Jagiellonian Library. The pages are sewn in order: scan 443-456,45-64,69-90;
https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/240547/edition/228910/content
K. 31 - 326 Stryjkowski Maciej Kronika Polska.... s. 60-708;
K. 327-328 2.k (from Chronicle of Sarmacyey Europskiey): Register of the Lithuanian Chronicle (scan 435-438).
Format: 27 x 19.5 cm
Binding: later binding, half-leather with titling on spine, embossing/gilding, endpapers: paper with vertical lines of watermark and inscribed mark of C & I Honig paper mill on both sides of paper and on one side coat of arms mark [postal corner]. Among other things, treasury bills from the period of the Kosciuszko Insurrection were printed on this paper
Provenance: note on first sheet, binding indicate provenance from Feliks Wężyk's book collection in Mroczenie.
(Hajkowski Zygmunt,The fate of Feliks Wężyk's book collection in Mroczenie, Łódź 1928)
(Jabloński Arkadiusz, Feliks Wężyk's Mroczenie book collection)
(http://cymeliapbwlodz.blogspot.com/)
Condition: binding with rubbing/bruising. loss of half-leather, notes on margins, infrequent underlining of text, slight soiling of pages, 54 pages with minor repairs [no harm to text], 21 pages with minor repairs [illegible single words,sentences], 14 pages with significant filling [to the detriment of text], 7 pages with ragged edges and tears, 21 pages with dry traces of former flooding [no harm to text].
Such a piece of the chronicle is a great antiquarian rarity.
