Konitz, Olszewski, Handbook for Municipal Authorities [1883]

Volume: [2], I–IV, 5–863, XXV, [2] pp.

Format: 22 cm.

Binding: Period half-leather.

A comprehensive compendium of over 860 pages of administrative, local government, and criminal regulations that guided municipal authorities in the Kingdom of Poland during the final decades of the 19th century. It provides a detailed picture of the day-to-day administrative life of a Polish municipality under Russian supervision. It was published by the Warsaw-based firm S. Orgelbrand and Sons, which continued the work of Samuel Orgelbrand, publisher of the Universal Encyclopedia.

Provenance: on the title page, the inscription “From the Library of Władysław Piędziecki.”

A title for historians of law and administration, as well as genealogists seeking information on municipal conditions during the Partitions.

The volume is intact and complete, with clean paper. The binding is sturdy, with minor scuffing on the corners.

A lot from the 19th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.