Forgotten pieces of Polish history, rediscovered
Dedicated to finding overlooked manuscripts, books and archives across the world, researching their stories, and bringing them back into historical view.
A curated selection of historical material currently available for sale
About Me
Julia Woodward is a Polish antiquarian bookseller and researcher specialising in the discovery and study of rare books, manuscripts and historical material. She entered the international rare-book trade in the United Kingdom in 2019 and has since worked with several million pounds’ worth of material, developing a particular interest in objects whose history, provenance or significance has been overlooked.
Newest Acquisitions
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COFFEE EDICT BROADSIDE. FRANKFURT, 1725
Regular price 3.650,00 PLNRegular priceSale price 3.650,00 PLN -
MOZART, DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, C. 1794–5
Regular price 6.000,00 PLNRegular priceSale price 6.000,00 PLN -
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica 1496 Incunable
Regular price 25.000,00 PLNRegular priceSale price 25.000,00 PLN
Polish history in its European context.
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Areas of interest
Material connected with Poland, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the partitions, emigration, diplomacy, and the movement of people and ideas across Europe.
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Approach
We begin where the catalogue description ends: identifying overlooked connections, refining attributions, and placing objects back into their historical context.
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What these objects reveal
Political exile, intellectual exchange, religious culture, artistic patronage, cartography, manuscript production, and the wider European networks in which Polish history was formed.
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Occasional emails about newly found manuscripts, books, archives and the stories behind them.



