SOBIECKI, Jacob.

by Jacob Sobiecki

£6,950 · Offered by Sokol Books

.This copy was in the library of the Polish physician Ludwig Walerian Alembek (1642-1704), the owner of one of the largest private libraries in Poland (R‚àö‚â•_ycki, Alembekowie , 83-4). This he inherited from his father, Walerian (d.1676), physician and noted bibliophile in Lwow, who was acquainted with Mark and Jan (later King Jan III) Sobiecki, sons of the author of this work. Trained at Cracow, Paris and Montpellier, Ludwig practised medicine at Lwow, and was probably the physician of Jan III, as well as city syndic. His library comprised books on medicine, philosophy, history, politics, mathematics and very early auction catalogues. Several had been acquired from local collectors in the mid-C17, e.g., (as this) from the heirs of the syndic Andrzeja Wachlowicz (c.1655). After Ludwig s death, the collection was divided. This copy was given to a Father Pisarski, from the Church of Lwow, in 1693. .A good copy of the scarce first (and only) edition of this important Turcicum an historical work on the Polish-Ottoman wars. A rare book, banned by Jan, King of Poland, son of the author (Bauer). Jakub Sobiecki (or Sobieski, 1590-1646) was an aristocrat, military officer and Parliamentarian, as well as father of King Jan III. After a campaign in Muscovy, he took part, in 1621, in the Battle or War of Chocim (also Khotyn or Hotin), in which the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the allied Cossacks fought against the Ottoman army of Osman II. Though neither truly prevailed (despite

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