MICKIEWICZ Adam - Parisian Lectures Course in Slavic Literature 4 volumes kpl 1st edition 1842-1845

First-Year Course (1840 -1841), Second-Year Course (1841-1842), Third-Year Course (1842-1843), Fourth-Year Course (1843-1844) Slavonic Literature taught at the French Collegium by Adam Mickiewicz

First Polish edition!

A series of lectures by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) on Slavic literature at the Collège de France in Paris, delivered in French in 1840-1844 four annual courses. They mark the beginning of a new stage in Mickiewicz's biography - no longer a poet, but a lecturer, historian and literary critic political activist, publicist, and Towiańczyk. The lectures were written down (stenographed) by the listeners and published in several editions under different titles and in French, Polish and German while Mickiewicz was still alive. The issues discussed in the lectures, however, largely go beyond the framework of literary subjects - they concern issues of history, sociology, politics, religion, philosophy.Taking over the chair of Slavic literatures and languages in December 1840 at the Collège
de France in accordance with the proposal of the French government, Mickiewicz considered in the category of professorial duty - as a service to the cause of Poland, France and the Slavs (Ludmiła Siryk, Literatura słowiańska w prelekcjach paryskich Adam Mickiewicza).

First-year course published 1843, Second-year course published 1842, Third-year course published 1844, Fourth-year course published 1845

Year of publication: Paris 1842-1845, Printing House of Bourgogne and Martinet

s. XVI, 389, [2]; p. XII, 276; p. XV [1], 213 [1]; p. IX [1], 126

Format: 18.5 x 11 cm

Binding: hardback inconsistent, half leather of period

Condition: complete and consistent,rust spots [foxing],dry traces of former flooding [no harm to text], bindings slightly worn with rubbing;

First-Year Course: 6 p. with foxing, minor signatures on title page and on front pastedown, several ownership stamps [Provenance: Library of the S.S. Ursuline Female Dormitory in Krakow; S.S. Ursuline Female Convent in Krakow];

Second-Year Course: 5 p. with looseness, minor signatures on pre-title page and on facing page, edges of first few pages slightly frayed [no harm to text], several ownership stamps [Provenance: K.Marciniak, Binino];

Third-year course: Signatures on the front pastedown, pre-title page and title page;

Fourth-year course minor notes and antiquarian paste-down on front paste-down, blurred signature on title page

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