Vilnius 1781, Royal Printing House at the Academy. 11.5x19 cm, pp (26), 428, contemporary cardboard cover. Good condition (piece after conservation, deacidified paper, additions to pre-title and title page).
First volume of Seneca' s Letters translated by Dawid Pilchowski (1735-1803), Polish Roman Catholic clergyman, Jesuit, poet, translator of literature from Latin, auxiliary bishop of Vilnius. Printed carefully by the Royal Printing House, decorated with numerous woodcuts, with a printed dedication of several pages to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski.