[November Uprising, Mickiewicz] NAKWASKI Henryk] - The case of the peasantry at the Sejm of 1831. Paris 1859. in the Polish Bookstore [dedication to Wladyslaw Mickiewicz].

[NAKWASKI Henryk] - The case of the peasantry at the Diet of 1831 : a letter, the insertion of which in the journal "Wiadomości Polskie" in Paris going out, was refused. Paris 1859, in the Polish Bookstore, 20, rue de Seine.

Pp. 16. height 22 cm. Lack of binding. Soiling of k. tit. and subsequent pages.

On the title page, author's dedication to Wladyslaw Mickiewicz (1838-1926), Polish bookseller librarian, publicist and émigré activist. He was the eldest son of Adam Mickiewicz and Celina, née Szymanowska, and in 1864 founded the then-famous Luxemburg Bookshop, designed to promote Polish and Polish works in French and the native language. Its main venture became the establishment of the Polish People's Library, a model for subsequent Polish publishing houses in exile.
In 1903 he founded the Adam Mickiewicz Museum in Paris, located in the building of the Polish Library on Saint Louis Island.
During World War I, he was in Switzerland, where he took part (with Henryk Sienkiewicz and Ignacy Moscicki, among others) in the work of the Swiss General Committee for Aid to War Victims in Poland. [after wikipedia.pl]"

Henryk Miroslaw Klemens Nakwaski (1800-1876) - Polish emigration activist and publicist, November insurgent.

Studied law at the Royal University of Warsaw participating in semi-secret student life. In 1826 he married Karolina Potocka, daughter of Colonel Adam Potocki. During the November Uprising, he was a deputy from the Braclaw district to the 1831 Sejm and a supporter of the right wing of the Patriotic Society. After the defeat of the uprising he left the country, avoiding imprisonment, the confiscated property was bought out by Henryk's mother. The Nakwascy never saw their homeland again. Henry and his family stayed in Dresden, where he made the acquaintance of Adam Mickiewicz, in Paris, Geneva, Germany, Switzerland and Tours. His democratic beliefs put him outside the most influential émigré current, which would be Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski's Hotel Lambert. He was a member of the insurrectionary Sejm in exile. From 1833 to 1834 he co-published Souvenirs de la Pologne. In France, he co-founded the Polish School in Paris.

He wrote on educational, agricultural and banking subjects, and wrote diaries from 1830-50, fragments of which were printed by Józef Kallenbach in his monograph Mickiewicz. He advocated the enfranchisement of peasants. [after wikipedia.pl].

Published anonymously (author's name according to Estr XIX vol. 3 p. 202).