[HANDBOOK for history and geography] Dufrene, Maximiliane - Rudimenta Historica Sive Brevis....

[HANDBOOK OF HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY] Dufrene, Maximiliane - Rudimenta Historica Sive Brevis, facilisque Method[us] Juventutem Orthodoxam notitia Historica imbuendi, Pro Gymnasiis Soc : Jesu in Polona Provincia. [Opusculum quartum, De Regnis, aliisque Orbis Provinciis. Leopoli 1745, Typis Collegii Soc : Jesu. 8°, f. [3], p. [1], 140, [1], f. [21], woodcut vignettes ; period binding: card.
Published anonymously in Lviv, the book served as a textbook for history and geography in the schools of the Society of Jesus; a total of 6 parts were published. Offered part 4 on introduction to history, it includes characteristics of Germany, then other European countries (including Poland), divided into Catholic and other kingdoms and republics, then kingdoms in Asia, Africa and America, at the end there are chronological lists, with lists of rulers and the structure of offices and dignities in Poland. A portion of the title page duplicated in the period (no harm to the text), penultimate page missing?, ex-library and minor handwritten provenience notes from the period, good condition. Estr. vol. 26, s. 457-458.