CHMIELOWSKI Benedykt, New Athens, Or the Academy of All Scythenia full,

New Athens, Or the Academy of All Scythenia full,

na rozne tytuły, iák ná classes podzielona, to the wise for memoryals, to idiots for náuki, to politicians for práctics, to melancholics for entertainment. ered: Part wtora repeated in print for public light published. This part will put the whole world with all curiosity, - A mirror of geniuses, with a multitude of languages, - What they are in this world, and how they have grown: - Religious orders, which left in the first part. - All this has become the great work of the Author aemigmate expressed here: Imie mi Dobrzerzeczon, názwisko piane, Tamte mi od Kościoła, Te od przodkow wlane. To iest: by Priest ... Dziekáná Rohatyńskiego Firleiowski y Podkámieniecki pásterza. T. 2-gi. (2nd ed.). Lvov 1754. in the printing house of the J. K. Mci Colleg: Leop: Societátis Jesu. (20.5 x 16 cm), pp. 769 (in place of 783), cloth back binding (19th century).
(Estr. T. 14). The first Polish encyclopedia by Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski of the Nałęcz coat of arms (1700 - 1763), a Catholic priest and Kiev canon. The entire work consists of four volumes, which were published in 1745-1756. The individual volumes form a peculiar whole, and their contents include news from various fields. "This volume embraces geography. Polish Kingdom goes from pp. 287-422. On pp. 418-22 goes abecadlo: Miraculous y łaskami słyjące obrazy N. Queen of Poland Mary in the Crown and W. X. Lit. - There are also Krucyfixe cudowne w Polszcze (p. 416). Polish saints homeland (p. 409). - Azya goes from p. 497. - From p. 680: Mirror of geniuses. (Cossacks pp. 705-709, Poles pp. 710-13). - From p. 743: Scyencia on languages. From p. 762: Catalogue of canons regular. (Estreicher). Traces of dampstain and soiling, mistakes in pagination, missing title page (here in reprod.) and last 7 pages; first existing page heavily damaged (undergluing to the detriment of the text), next 3 pages with damaged corners with no. damage to the text. Stamp: "From the Library of Konstanty Popiel in Czaple Wielkie", and exlibris of Edmund Puzdrowski. Binding: later half leather with rubbing of the spine.