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CZYNSKI, Jean. Picturesque Russia. History and picture of Ru…
See original version (French)
99
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CZYNSKI, Jean. Picturesque Russia. History and picture of Ru…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
CZYNSKI, Jean.
Picturesque Russia. History and picture of Russia.
Paris, Chez Pilout successeur de Postel, 1837.
2 parts in one large volume in-4, 383 pp. in continuous pagination, with 2 title pages and 2 tables bound at the head of the work. Contemporary green half-basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and gilt roulettes, gilt title (some foxing to first few pages, slight wear to binding).
Only one entry in the CCFr (BnF).
Uncommon work, especially with so many plates showing buildings, landscapes, costumes, tribes or the daily life of the peoples of these regions, urban scenes of Russia in the early nineteenth century.
May be confused with other addresses containing fewer prints, as there is a publication in several fascicles, resulting in differences in existing copies.
Illustrated with 58 plates, lithographs or engravings, in black, by Gatti, Lhuillier or Raimhein...
Of Jewish origin, albeit Catholic, the Fourierist lawyer Jan Kazimierz Czynski, known as Jean Czynski (1801-1867), made an early attempt to draw attention to the fate of the Jews on the borders of the "Old Kingdom". By not separating this cause from that of the rest of the Polish nation, which was subject to Russia or Prussia, he was an exception among the leading figures of Polish nationalism. Exiled to Paris, then Brussels and London, he was one of the most active activists in these two causes and was close to the Polish historian Joachim Lelewel. Together with Zoé de Valmond, he founded the review Le Nouveau Monde, the organ of the dissidents of the Harmonian Union.
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