The Great Week of the Poles, The Year 1830 and 1831: Memories and Images [co-opted].

Binding of bookbinders, semi-canvas, marbled veneer on covers, gilt titling on spine/ good condition of binding, edge rubbing, traces of paper on canvas

Boromeusz Karol Hoffman - The Great Week of the Poles or a description of memorable events in Warsaw from November 29 to December 5, 1830. In Warsaw December 6, 1830 Warsaw 1915/ Published by Gebethner and Wolff/s.88/ text very good condition

Karol Boromeusz Hoffman (1798-1875) - historian, political writer. In "The Great Week" "he developed the view that the uprising was an inevitable consequence of the oppositions between the constitutional system of the Kingdom and tsarist despotism, that it was therefore, as it were, a legitimate defense of the violated law" (PSB).

The year 1830 and 1831: Memories and images. Collected by Artur Oppman (Or-Ot) -Warsaw 1916/ Published by Gebethner and Wolff/s.198/ good condition of text, folds of corners of pages 13-32

Collection of memoirs of the participants of the November Uprising. The selection was made by Artur Oppman( Or-Ot)

"In this booklet we would like to recall the history of that year of impulse and hope, the year of proud intentions, mighty zeal, martyrdom heroism of the soldier from the memorable November night to the death of the patron of the ramparts of Wola, the venerable General Sowinski and to the fall of the capital. Like a rosary made of bloody seeds interspersed with pearls of Polish tears vines this magnificent garland of national memories in the descriptions of participants and eyewitnesses. Belvedere, Wawer, Stoczek, Grochów, Ostrołęka, Wola and there still the brave Różycki regiment in Russia, and there the entrance to Lithuania. How old and how close again, how always memorable to the heart of a Pole!'' (from the introduction)