Tokarz Waclaw - Wysocki's Sprzysiężenie i Noc Listopadowa [Warsaw 1925].

Tokarz Waclaw / Sprzysiężenie Wysockiego i Noc Listopadowa / Warsaw 1925 / Gebethner and Wolff / cloth binding; pastedown original publisher's covers / pp. 276 / 44 illustrations and 3 plans / good+ condition; browning on cover; a few minor scuffs on page margins, foreign dedication on prelims.

A comprehensive and classic study of the origins and course of the events of the November night of 1830, by an eminent historian and expert in the history of the Polish military. Tokarz presents the conspiratorial activities of Second Lieutenant Piotr Wysocki and the November Uprising against the background of the political situation of the Kingdom of Poland and Russia in the first years of Nicholas I's reign. The book, richly illustrated with 44 engravings and 3 plans, is a fundamental source of knowledge about one of the most important moments in 19th-century Polish history.