ZUBRZYCKI, Jan Sas, Architectural Treasures of Poland. Vol. IV.

Architectural Treasures of Poland. Vol. IV.

Volume IV. 100 plates. Nos. 301–400. Kraków 1913–1916. Self-published. Printed at the “Czas” Printing House under the management of A. Świerzyński. 4 pp. [4], XX, 100 plates with illustrations (including color), contemporary half-leather binding.
Slight soiling on a few pages; slight staining on the corners of the last pages; otherwise in very good condition. This item is the fourth volume of a collection of engravings and photographs depicting the oldest and most valuable architectural monuments in their entirety, as well as in the details most interesting to an architect. Jan Sas Zurzycki collected, organized, and published them between 1907 and 1916. In this volume, the author included an index of architectural styles covering all parts of the work, presented in Polish and German. The plates feature, among other things: details of the rich ornamentation from the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Vilnius; The wooden Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross in Drohobych; the ancient larch-wood church in Sękowa; the ruins of the castle in Chęciny; the interior of Wawel Cathedral; a view of Długosz’s house from the direction of Wawel; Details from the “Pod Lewkiem” tenement house in Lviv; Old manor houses in Kraków; and others.