Jodkowski, Józef. Grodno. With 28 illustrations and a map of the city. Vilnius, 1923. Published by Józef Zawadzki’s Bookstore, p. [4], 119, 2 plates (including 1 in color), 1 map (fold-out), illustrations in the text (including full-page ones), 20 cm, half-leather binding, original cover of the paperback edition preserved.
The history of Grodno, one of the oldest cities in the eastern borderlands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a detailed guide to the city’s landmarks (former fortresses, churches, secular architecture, the church on Kołoży Hill, and the synagogue). J. Jodkowski (1890–1950), an outstanding archaeologist, art historian, and numismatist, who after 1945 completely rebuilt the Numismatic Cabinet of the National Museum in Warsaw, which had been almost entirely plundered by the Germans (PSB). At the end is a fold-out city map (30.5 x 29.5 cm). Good condition.
