By Wiktor Brodzikowski

Now only $39 !!

HER_001

$45

Book published in Warsaw 2003. About 130 pages, size: 7 x 10 in., hard covered. Text in Polish, but you need not understand Polish language to find this book useful. The text in this book is unsubstantial – in the greater part of it you can find very beautiful coloured pictures of Polish nobility coats of arms (88 tables, 5 pictures each + 440 pictures of coats of arms!) and their list.  A must for collectors!

"Polish insignia, symbols and crests"

By Alfred Znamierowski

Now only $29 !!

HER_002

$33

This book is the first and the newest guide of Polish national symbols - royal regalia, White Eagle Order and Polish Republic emblems, nobility coats of arms, towns crests, banners, ensigns. Polish text. A lot of colour pictures and photos of Polish symbols, emblems, flags, decorations and seals, etc. Size: 7 x 10 in., 216 pages, hard cover, glossy paper. Published in Warsaw, Poland 2003. The majority of drawings is made by the author - heraldist and "veksylologist", the Director of the Heraldry Institute. Really beautiful edition. Worth having!!

Translated by Alfred Znamierowski

HER_003

$25

This publication presents  flags of countries, provinces, states, territories of the whole world. It explains the symbolic meaning of colours and emblems on particular flag. Over 600 coloured photos and illustrations. 130 pages, 7 x 9 in., middle hard-covered, glossy paper. Published in Warsaw 2002, written in Polish language.

"The White Eagle. The Polish State Crest"

By Aleksandra Jaworska

Now only $32 !!

HER_004

$39

New - edited in Warsaw, Poland 2003. Hard cover, tassel, 352 pages, size: 7 x 10 in. Written in Polish language. Book describing over 7 centuries of the Polish State Crest existence.  A lot of black&white pictures presenting the White Eagle Sign on documents, drawings, seals, coins, architectural elements and so on. Very interesting monograph about The White Eagle Sign!

"Polish nobleman's families and their
 coats of arms" 

By Tadeusz Gajl

Now only $67 !!

HER_005

$75

Published in Bialystok, Poland 2003. Hard cover, 320 pages, size: 8.2 x 11.8 in., text in Polish language. This beautiful publishing contains over 20 000 of Polish noblemen names, 1275 coloured coats of arms, and 200 black and white ones. Also list of districts, voivodeships, governorships and other territories (which are mentioned with the names of the families) of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Polish Kingdom included. You can also find here the map of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th and 18 centuries. New and very interesting book!!

By Alfred Znamierowski

Now only $31 !!

HER_006

$35

This beautifully illustrated book is a rich compendium on Polish family crests. Not only does it depict and describe with details these crests but also their various historic forms and modification, origin and occurance. The most important and indeed valuable here are infos about rudiments of heraldry, emblems and source matierials of ancestral heraldry. There are about 170 crests (and their 550 variants) depicted properly together with their jewellery according to the source materials the author managed to gather (which is worth noticing) and the record of 11 500 nobleman’s families included in this book. Published in 2004, hardcovered, 336 pages, glossy paper, written in Polish language.Very many excellent pictures in colour and b/w drawings. Absolutely new!!

Now only $31 !!

HER_007

$47

This is the catalogue of the documents’ exhibition from collection of the Russian National Historical Archives in Sankt Petersburg. Edited by Slawomir Gorzynski, published in Warsaw Poland 2001. Exceptionally valuable publication presenting large assemblage of all these Polonica - heraldic and genealogical documents refered to Polish aristocratic and noblemans’ families and Polish towns crests - collected in the years 1870-1916 ( in the time of  Russian occupation) by the Russian’ invaders. The exhibition and the publication are really unique as Polish archives stored in Warsaw were destroyed by the Nazis after the Warsaw Uprising collaps (Municipal Archives of Warsaw and Central Archives of Historical Records were destroyed in almost 100 %). Written in Polish language, hard covered with tassel, 114 pages, size: 8.8 x 8.4 inches. You can find here many high quality colour and black/white pictures of coats of arms, crests and documents in this book. Truly recommended!!