Quo vadis. A novel from the time of Nero. Volumes I-III.
First edition
Year of publication: Warsaw 1896, Nakład Gebethner i Wolff.
s. 309; 253; 345.
Format: 17.5 x 12.5 cm
Binding: contemporary half-leather, chalkboards with titling on spine.
Condition: consistent, volume III title page missing, [in volume II: loss of upper part of pages from pp. 69-70, loss of most of page from pp. 71-72, loss of 1/3 of page from pp. 73-74, on two pages of underlinings], [PROVENANCE: on title pages an ex-libris with the coat of arms "From the books of Jan Götz "*], covers with minimal rubbing/scratches.
*JanAlbin Goetz, Jan Götz-Okocimski, also Götz Edler von Okocim (1864 - 1931) - Polish entrepreneur and political activist. He was the owner of Okocim Brewery, one of the largest in this part of Galicia (producing as much as 380,000 hl of beer per year in 1910). From 1904 until his death, he also owned the Krakow Brewery and Malt Processing Factory on Lubicz Street and a brewery in Krasiczyn. He also served as president of the Union of Industrialists in Cracow, president of the Bank of Malopolska and president of the Polish Economic Society in Cracow. He was a deputy to the Austrian Council of State, marshal of the District Council from 1897 to 1924, deputy to the Galician Sejm from 1901 to 1914, and president of the Polish Circle in Vienna. In 1909 Goetz was awarded the title of Baron by Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, with his own coat of arms and the coat of arms motto "With Work and Truth." Raised in the spirit of Polishness, he considered himself a native Pole; during World War I he advocated full Polish independence. From 1928 to 1931 he served as a senator of the Second Republic. (behind https://zbiory.mufo.krakow.pl/artist/goetz-okocimski-jan-albin-2/)
Despite minor defects nice condition with good provenance
