RZEWUSKI Stanisław - News about the gunpowder factory in Nissa (Nysa) [Warsaw 1829].

Warsaw 1829, in the Printing House of A. Gałęzowski & comp. 20.5x13 cm, pp. 28, period booklet cover. Good condition (out-of-print library stamps, small paper loss in one sheet - outside of text).

History of the gunpowder factory in Nysa, written by Stanislaw Rzewuski (1806-1831), Polish literary scholar, philologist, historian and military officer. An interesting item for militarists. In the contents: a description of the factory, an inventory of the buildings, precautions in the buildings, about coal and the coal plant, the composition of gunpowder and the process of its formation.