Facies rerum Sarmaticarum in Facie Regni Poloniae, Magniq Ducatus Lituaniae gestarum Duobus Libris succinte Expressa - Adam Naramowski, Vilnius 1724, f. 16 x 19.5cm, pp. nlb. 22, 336, nlb. 32
The work of Jesuit Adam Naramowski [1686-1736], dedicated to Lithuanian field hetman Stanislaw Denhoff [c. 1673-1728], presents Poland and its history. it consists of 17 chapters in which the author presents information on history, geography, religion or customs. He devotes a lot of space to supernatural phenomena: comets, heralds, wonders. The book contains engravings by Breslau artist Bartholomew Strachowski [d. 1759]. [source: https://dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl/dlibra/publication/70620/edition/65217]
heavily deteriorated leather binding, front of binding loose, losses to spine binding, rubbing and scuffing of binding, missing page with title and one of the graphics that was on the back, handwritten entry on pre-title page, otherwise center clean, dry and in good state of preservation
