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Hugo Kołłątaj, A Critical Analysis of the Principles of History Concerning the Origins of the Human Race, Vol. II [1842]

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Title: X. Hugo Kołłątaj, A Critical Analysis of the Principles of History Concerning the Origins of the Human Race. Vol. II.
Author: KOŁŁĄTAJ Hugo (1750–1812) [politician, statesman, Enlightenment publicist, rector of the Crown Academy, Crown Vice-Chancellor, co-author of the Constitution of May 3]
Publisher: Ferdynand Kojsiewicz (1801–1874), professor at Jagiellonian University. Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków
Year of publication: 1842. First edition. X. Hugon Kołłątaj, Historical Studies, vol. 2.

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Format: 22 cm.

Pages: 424.

Binding: Period half-leather.

The second volume of the posthumously published work by Hugo Kołłątaj, co-author of the Constitution of May 3 and Crown Vice-Chancellor. Kołłątaj wrote *A Critical Analysis* while imprisoned by the Austrians (1794–1802), mainly in the fortress at Olomouc, from memory and without access to contemporary literature. In it, he addresses, among other topics, geological time, geological processes, and the influence of the geographical environment on the development of societies. The manuscript was not published until 1842 by Ferdynand Kojsiewicz, a professor at Jagiellonian University, thirty years after the author’s death.

A clean copy, in a half-leather binding.

An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.

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