Commonplace MAGAZINE: Journal of useful news. 1837.

Common Magazine: a journal of useful news. 1837.

Weekly. Warsaw. Printed by J. Glücksberg. Poczet Nowy. Ed. Leon Rogalski.
Year IV. 1837 . No. 1 - 52. (Complete Yearbook). 4, pp. 416, numerous woodcuts in the text (including full-page), binding introl. contemporary fl.
Traces of page flooding, rust spots on pages. The periodical came out in 1834 - 1844, in its pages represented (in description and illustrations) almost all areas of life such as architectural monuments, nature, history, art and others around the world. Contents include: The Tomb of Wladyslaw Jagiello in Cracow (with engraving). Klechdy (Kazimierz Władysław Wójcicki, first edition). Home life and last moments of Walter Scott. The Old Town in Warsaw, description from 1828 (Kazimierz Władysław Wójcicki). Ludojad, monster and sawfish, inhabitants of the sea. The port city of Mokka and coffee. Interesting details of the life of Botticher, inventor of European porcelain. Clothes, customs and mores of the inhabitants of Hungary. Food made from acorns. Bird nests; descriptions of various species of birds (with engravings). Protection of fruit trees from caterpillars. Tomb of Casimir the Jagiellonian in Cracow (with engravings). Superstitions and superstitions (with engravings). Lost animals (mammoths, dinosaurs; with engravings). Religion, piety and domestic employments of the ancient Slavs (Waclaw Alexander Maciejowski). Gothic architecture (with engravings). Sanok. Battle of Wagram (engraving with Napoleon). Message on geologic description of Galicia and Podolia. Pekin (with engraving).