MICKIEWICZ Adam - Correspondence [set of 2 volumes] [first edition Paris 1870-1872].

Paris 1870-1872, Luxemburg Bookshop. 13.5x21 cm, pp. (4), VII, 383, (3), VI, 292 [set of 2 volumes], steel eng raving by Antoni Oleszczyński (depicting the first monument to Mickiewicz on Polish soil designed by Władysław Oleszczyński, which was unveiled in Poznan in May 1859) before the title page of volume one, two facsimiles of the bard's letters, half-leather bookbinding of the period. Good condition (small rubbing of spines and corners of bindings, discoloration of title page in volume two, single soiling, handwritten note regarding Mickiewicz on the front paste-down of volume one).

First edition. A collection of Adam Mickiewicz's correspondence with, among others, Adam Czartoryski, Ignacy Domeyka, Stefan Garczyński, Joachim Lelewel, Antoni Edward Odyniec, Wojciech Stattler, Bohdan and Józef Zaleski, Tomasz Zan. Piece from the book collection of physicochemist Jan Zawidzki (1866-1928), professor at the Dublany Agricultural Academy and Jagiellonian University, rector of Warsaw Polytechnic in 1918-1919.