Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich / edited by Filip Sulimierski, Bronisław Chlebowski, Władysław Walewski. Warsaw : 1880-1900 VERY RARE IN THIS LARGE TEAM !!!

Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich /geographical dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic countries / edited by Filip Sulimierski, Bronisław Chlebowski, Władysław Walewski. Warsaw : edited by Filip Sulimierski and Władysław Walewski, 1880-1900

Volumes 1-13 and the first part of the supplementary volume 15. Volume 14 and the second part of volume 15 are missing for the set. Volume blocks without losses, flooding and dampness, underlining and notes. Interior condition very good.

VERY RARE IN SUCH A LARGE SET !!!

The dictionary is a description of the historical lands as well as the regions, cities, villages and settlements lying in the areas that the First Republic covered within its historical borders. The geographical scope includes the Kingdom of Poland, the Russian Baltic gubernias, the western gubernias and part of the southern gubernias, Prussia, Pomerania, the Grand Duchy of Posen and Prussian and Austrian Silesia, Galicia, Moravia, the Bukovina area and Slovakian lands belonging to Hungary. The entries also include descriptions of rivers, lakes and mountain peaks. They contain data on geographic and administrative location, statistical and demographic data, religious data, and a lot of information on schools, industry and trade, transportation, agriculture. An important part includes brief historical features, names of successive owners of landed estates and industrial-processing facilities, as well as state, local government and religious officials and prominent citizens. It gives information on population, agriculture, crafts, industry, trade, communications, buildings, peasant and manor lands. It is a compedium of knowledge of the last quarter of the 19th century collected in a very modern way for those years, because by local correspondents cooperating with the Dictionary's editors.