P. MAŁACHOWSKI - A Collection of the Names of the Nobility with a Description of the Coats of Arms. 1805.

MAŁACHOWSKI Piotr Nałęcz - A Collection of Noblemen's Names with a Description of the Coats of Arms of the Families Remaining in the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; by a born ... Ziemianina Woiewod: Czerniechow[ski] arranged, corrected, multiplied and reprinted. Lublin 1805. druk. J.C.K. Mci u XX Trynitarzów. 16d, p. 817 [is erroneously 717]. Bound in period psk.
Spine clearly rubbed, with small losses, losses of veneer paper, inside good condition. Deleted bibliot. stamps, inventory numbers. Second, supplemented and revised edition of the heraldry, first published in 1790 in Lutsk. The author writes in the preface: "Through trefunek, and the Printing House, at which I was not able to be present, some mistakes have crept into the Work moie published at the beginning of the Year 1790 [...], I have corrected the errors noticed, and having confidence in the diligence of the Superior over the Printing House which I have now put my writing to the press, I expect that no one will have cause to complain about the inaccuracy". About Malachowski, Wikipedia writes: "Author of a valuable - (because based, among other things, on the Crown and Volyn Metrics, Lithuanian statutes and the First Statute of Mazovia, the Second Statute of Mazovia, and Sejm constitutions) heraldic publication 'Zbiór Names Szlachty z Descripem Herbów'."