"Vilna"

Wood engraving 1875. The image is on a page with an article ( in German) about Vilna.
Reverse side is printed.

8.5 x 10.5 cm ( 3.3 x 4.1 ")

Order Nr. LITHUANIA242407SOLD

"Les Fetes De la Toussaint en Lithuanie. - Le bal des mendiants et des paysans, pres des cimetieres"

Wood engraving after Jozef Chelmonski, ca 1885. Reverse side is printed.
Light age toning. Vertical centerfold.

30.5 x 45 cm ( 12 x 17,7 ")

$ 70.00

Order Nr. LITHUANIA242830

Die Union von Lublin

Wood engraving after a painting by Johann Matejko, ca 1880.

The Union of Lublin took place in 1569 with a meeting in Lublin of the diets of Poland and Lithuania. The two diets merged into one but each keeping separate administrations. Over the years the nobility of Lithuania Polanized. Poland turned into an elective kingdom. The Sejm demanded that the king guarantee the inherited privileges. Another condition was Catholicism and residence in Cracow.

Print has a vertical centerfold. Very wide margins. A bit of light browning on margin edges.

Image size: 24 x 40.5 cm ( 9.4 x 15.9")

$ 220.00

Order Nr. POLAND1949

1. Mazowviens, 2. Motagnards, 3. Lithouaniens, 4. Krakoviens.

Steel engraving at Lemaitre ca 1840.

8.8 x 14.1 cm ( 3.5 x 5.5 ")

$ 65.00

Order Nr. POLAND1987

"Lithauische Torfgraeber durschschreiten ein Moor"
(Lithuanian peat diggers walk through a moor)

Wood engraving after Arnould and Lang published 1879.
Upper margin is narrow. Unrelated text on reverse side.

Image: 15 x 24 cm ( 5.9 x 9.4")

$ 75.00

Order Nr. LITHUANIA254799

"Kosciuszko"

Andrzej Kosciuszko (1746&endash;1817) is a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, and the United States.
He fought in the Polish-Lithuanian Army against Russia. He was a friend of Thomas Jefferson and fought in
the American Revolutionary War.

Fine steel engraving by Fleischmann after Olescynski ca 1850.

Image: 10.5 x 8.5 cm ( 4.1 x 3.3 ")

$ 45.00

Order Nr. POLAND 239932

"Auf der Lauer" ( on the look out )

Wood engraving of a wolf looking over a Lithuanian village. Made after a painting by
Wiernsz Koealski ca 1880. Reverse side is printed. Light age toning.

17.5 x 23.5 cm ( 6.8 x 9.2 ")

$ 25.00

Order Nr. LITHUANIA245446

ãLitthauische Schlittenfahrt" 

Lithuanian sledge ride

Wood engraving after the painting by A. Wierusz-Kowalski

Published in a German periodical. Ca. 1880

General age toning. Centerfold has small repairs.

Image: 20,7 x 40 cm (ca. 8.1 x 15.7")

$ 80.00 (Please see discount at top of this page. Here 40% = $ 48.00).

Order Nr. LITHUANIA254699