Year of publication: 1858. First edition.<\/p>\n
Size: 23 cm.<\/p>\n
Volume: X, 417 pp. + 1 plate (frontispiece).<\/p>\n
Binding: Period half-leather binding, with a title label and embossing on the spine. Superficial scuffing of the leather on the joints and edges of the covers, with no structural damage.<\/p>\n
Tomasz \u015awi\u0119cki (1774\u20131837), a lawyer, attorney at the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Poland, and member of the Society of Friends of Science, spent years collecting material on the history of ancient Polish families. He died, leaving his work in manuscript form. Julian Bartoszewicz prepared it for publication in 1858 and added footnotes to the text.<\/p>\n
Volume I opens with an alphabetically arranged biographical dictionary containing notes on families and individuals from the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The work draws on the tradition of Paprocki\u2019s and Niesiecki\u2019s armorials, but instead of coats of arms, it collects \u201cmemorabilia\u201d\u2014that is, historical information about individual families. It was published by the Warsaw bookseller Samuel Henryk Merzbach, one of the leading publishers of historical and memoir literature in the mid-19th century.<\/p>\n
A reference work for genealogists and researchers of the history of the Polish nobility.<\/p>\n
Provenance: A coat-of-arms seal on the title page (owner unknown).<\/p>\n
The block is intact; the pages are generally clean, with some localized yellowing and foxing, including on the title page and on p. 245. The binding shows signs of wear, but the block is firmly bound.<\/p>\n
An item from the 19th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Title: Tomasz \u015awi\u0119cki, *Historical Memorabilia of Distinguished Families and Individuals of Old Poland*. Vol. I. *
* Author: Tomasz Ignacy \u015aWI\u0118CKI (1774\u20131837) [born in Kostki near W\u0119gr\u00f3w; lawyer, historian, attorney at the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Poland, member of the Society of Friends of Science in Warsaw]
Compiled and annotated by: Julian Bartoszewicz (1821\u20131870) [Polish historian and journalist, known for his critical editions of old historical texts]
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