CZOLOWSKI, Aleksander, and Bohdan JANUSZ. Preszlosc i zabitytki Wojewodztwa Tarnopolskiego. Z 160 ilustracjami na 78 tablicach i karta zabytkow.

CZOLOWSKI, Aleksander, and Bohdan JANUSZ. Preszlosc i zabitytki Wojewodztwa Tarnopolskiego. Z 160 ilustracjami na 78 tablicach i karta zabytkow. Ternopil, Nakladem Powiatowej Organizacji Narodowej, 1926.

Large 8vo. Original cloth-backed illustrated boards; pp. viii, 198, [2, errata], [2, contents], 78 plates in sepia photogravure, folding map; boards spotted, a few leaves with marginal traces of humitidity; otherwise good; contemporary rubber stamp of the Lviv lawyer Mochinacki on half-title, his signature on title.

Very rare first edition of this documentation of the Western Ukrainian voivodship of Ternopil (Tarnopol), including pictures of several buildings ruined by the recent war and civil war. This part of Galicia had changed hands about four times between 1917 and the publication date. Many more buildings and lives were to be destroyed during the following two decades. Remarkable are the photos of synagogues in Brody, Ternopil itself, Lezniow, and Husiatyn (Podolia), all wooden synagogues, and a rare example of a sixteenth-century fortress synagogue, which was restored in the 1970s and is now vacated again, with the roof collapsed.

COPAC locates a single copy, at UCL.

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