ESTREICHER Karol, ESTREICHER Stanislaw - Bibliografia polska. T. 1-33.

ESTREICHER Karol, ESTREICHER Stanislaw - Bibliografia polska. T. 1-33. Warsaw 1977. WAiF. 8. pamphlet.
Very good condition. Reprint of the 1st edition from 1870-1939. Attached are photocopies of vol. I-IV and two supplementary volumes (in cloth binding). A monumental work of three generations of Esterichers covering the entirety of Polish writing and foreign polonics from the invention of printing to the end of the 19th century. "Bibliography" consists of three main parts: vols. 1-7: years 1800-1880, vols. 12-34: Old Polish part XV-XVIII century, vols. I-IV (photocopy): years 1881-1900. The remaining volumes are: vols. 8-11: chronological lists (XV-XVII century, XVIII century, 1800-1870, 1871-1889) and additional notebooks (photocopies): "3,000 prints since 1871" and "Chronological listing of 7,200 prints." Infrequent and indispensable@ "This is the largest and most complete general bibliography of Polish writing and Poland concerning it, widely regarded as an individual national bibliography. It contains the entirety of Polish publishing production [...]. Among Polish bibliographies it occupies a chief and unique place. It is a work of the largest size, of the widest chronological range, and of the most extensive scope, both thanks to the wide-ranging foreign polonics, and thanks to the inclusion of, in addition to prints with word text [...] also maps and notes with word text" (J. Korpala "Karol Estreicher (st.) creator of 'Polish bibliography'", Wr. 1980, s. 256).