Oskar Halecki. The Annexation of Podlasie, Volhynia, and the Kiev Region to the Crown in 1569. Kraków 1915. Published by the Academy of Learning, pp. [4], 245, [3], 22.5 cm, half-leather binding.
A seminal dissertation by Oskar Halecki (1891–1973), a historian and scholar of Polish history and culture during the Jagiellonian period. An analysis of the incorporation of the lands of Podlasie, Volhynia, and the Kyiv region into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which, according to the author, played a decisive role in the history of the Union of Lublin and influenced Poland’s subsequent fate. From the book collection of Father Ignacy Wierobiej (1887–1970), a Catholic priest, long-time pastor of the parish in Hajnówka, and amateur historian (stamps). Some wear on the binding, pencil marginalia; otherwise in good condition.
