[Binding by J. Kutrzeba] FLAMMARION Kamil - The multiplicity of inhabited worlds. Study in whichm expound the conditions of inhabitability of the heavenly lands.... 1-2, complete. Warsaw 1873.

Author: FLAMMARION Kamil

Title: The multiplicity of inhabited worlds. A study in which the conditions of inhabitability of the celestial lands are expounded from the standpoint of astronomy, physiology and natural philosophy.

• Place of publication: Warsaw
• Year of publication: 1873
• Publisher: Printed by Józef Ungra
• Number of pages: [8], 308, IV; [4], 285, [2].
• Illustrations, maps: illustrations in the text (including fold-outs), fold-out plates in vol. 1
• Size: 18.5 cm
• Binding: hard cloth with embossing and gilt on spine, iridescent moiré lining, binding signed on adhesive on front pastedown "Oprawiał J. Kutrzeba w Krakowie Rynek N. 45."
• Condition: slight soiling of the pastedowns, stamp of the S. A. Bookstore. Krzyżanowski in Cracow and private collector's stamp of Wincenty Łoś
• ISBN: ---

Description:

Second edition.

Translated by Jakub Waga.

In contents: Description of the solar systemat. Comparative study of the planets. Beings on the Earth. Life. The inhabitability of the Earth. The immeasurability of the Heavens. Inhabitants of other worlds. Inferiority of the inhabitant of Earth. Collective humanity. The multiplicity of worlds in the face of Christian dogma. Description of the Sun taken out of the popular astronomy of J. I. Littrov. Evidence of the Earth's spin and progressive motion. Some news concerning the planet Mars. Small planets located between Mars and Jupiter. About the heat on the surface of the planets. John Sniadecki's remarks on the atmosphere of the moon. On the physical structure and habitation of the Sun. Spectral analysis and chemical composition of celestial bodies. Aerolites, or stones falling from the sky. About the internal structure of the globe and earthquakes. How the distances of the stars from the earth are determined. Philosophical exceptions from various authors, which can be used for the history of the Multiverse.

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Wincenty Antoni Łoś of Dąbrowa Coat of Arms, known by his pseudonym Feliks of Grodków and Konar (1857-1918) - Polish novelist, art collector.

Jan Kutrzeba (1842-1901) bookbinder was the father of historian Stanislaw Kutrzeba (1876-1946).

He served his apprenticeship between 1858 and 1862 at the bookbinding shop of master bookbinder Frederick Friedlein. In 1872, he purchased a bookbinding business from Friedlein in the "Grey Tenement House" at No. 64 Market Square. Kutrzeba employed several bookbinders and bound books from the Library of the Technical Institute and the Industrial and Technical Museum in Cracow in hard covers. Thanks to the company's large income, he modernized his bookbindery by purchasing a modern paper-cutting machine from Beckert-Krause of Leipzig in 1874. After such an upgrade, the bindery was able to make bindings of notebooks, books for offices on a mass scale. The recipients of Kutrzeba's products were banks, libraries, museums and bookstores6.

In 1874, in partnership with Jozef Murczynski, Jan Kutrzeba established a store for stationery and school supplies on Grodzka Street. In 1877, he moved the store to the Main Square at today's No. 21. The store was well known throughout Krakow and had a rich selection of reproductions of prints by foreign and Polish masters, lithographs by the Krakow factories of Aureliusz Pruszyński and Marcin Salba, trade and religious books, devotional articles, as well as stucco ceiling upholstery, French and English wallpapers, paper decorations, window blinds, oilcloths for tables, furniture and floors, oil paintings with patriotic content and with views of Cracow, engravings, artistic sculptures, frames and carved mouldings, albums, photographs, paints, brushes and canvases. Among other things, Kutrzeba's establishment was the publisher of the famous album Klejnoty miasta Krakowa (Jewels of the City of Cracow), with text by Władysław Łuszczkiewi- cz, a foreword by Marian Sokołowski and 24 color chromolithographs based on watercolors by Juliusz Kossak and Stanisław Tondos (1886). The chromolithographs depicting the most beautiful and famous monuments and views of Cracow were pasted on original cardboard. The cover featured the city's coat of arms and a view of Wawel Hill. Ludwik Dębicki rightly emphasized in his review that this was the first illustrated publication in Krakow published by a Polish bookbinding plant. In the 1880s the establishment was one of the largest in the city and enjoyed a well-deserved reputation It also had a regular and numerous clientele. As a guild master, Kutrzeba trained several prominent Krakow bookbinders, including Wojciech Czekajski, Adam Markiewicz, Jozef Janowski and Adam Suchodolski. Around 1884, Kutrzeba and Murczynski sold the bookbinding business to Czekajski, devoting themselves only to bookselling.

(Source: Bilinski, Piotr, Family and scientific environment of Stanislaw Kutrzeba, History and Technology Quarterly 55/1, pp. 37-64, 2010).