CZECHOWSKI Aleksander - HISTORY OF THE 19th CENTURY. The history of politics, literature, art, science, industry and etc. p., compiled on the basis of the latest research and explained with numerous illustrations. vol. 1-3
Edited by Dr. Aleksander Czechowski.
Published by , "Gazeta Polska", Warsaw 1901-1902. Dimension 27.5x20cm; pages [4], XVIII, [2], 599; [8], 599; [8], XX, 691. Original cloth decorated binding, brown cloth (minor rubbing of corners of cover), ca. 1,000 illustrations in text. Few soiling inside.
Includes: The intellectual movement at the turn of the century, Geographical travel and research, The Duchy of Warsaw, Bickering with the Pope, Architecture and applied art, Russia, Sweden, Turkey until 1812, The year 1812, Inventions and technical improvements, The Congress of Vienna, Romanticism, The Kingdom of Poland, The Russian-Polish War of 1831, Slavic literatures, The Free City of Cracow, Iron industry and steam engines, The year 1848 and its aftermath, The Crimean War, The time of Wielopolski, Europe after the Italian War, From Schleswig to Sadowa, Astronomy, Europe in the Bismarckian era, Art, Exhibitions, Fashions.