BULIŃSKI Melchior - Monograph of the city of Sandomierz. With a portrait of the author, with a view of the city of Sandomierz during the Swedish war of 1656, according to a drawing in Puffendorf's work, and 18 other woodcuts [1879].

Warsaw 1879, in the Printing House of F. Czerwiński and S. Niemiera. 14.5x22 cm, pp. XXIV, 448, VII, black and white illustrations on separate pages, half leather binding of period. Good condition (rubbing of the binding, loss of the spine filled with cloth, ownership entry, outdated stamps and library markings, dampstaining, single stains and understaining).

Illustrated monograph by Rev. Melchior Bulinski (1810-1877), expert and lover of Sandomierz, professor at the Roman Catholic Clergy Academy in Warsaw, from 1862 prelate custodian of the Sandomierz chapter. Posthumous edition by Rev. Wawrzyniec Kuklinski. In Content: Posthumous memoir of the late prelate Melchior Bulinski. Research on the origin and name of the city of Sandomierz. History of the city of Sandomierz during the Piast era. The successful state of the city of Sandomierz during the reign of the kings of the Jagiellonian family, and the first elective kings up to John Casimir (1386-1648). Statistical news about the city and Sandomierz suburbs and the municipal authorities of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The decline of the city of Sandomierz. Sandomierz under Austrian rule. Collegiate church, now cathedral, under the title of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Other Sandomierz churches. Churches currently no longer in existence. Schools both secular and clerical. Houses of refuge for the poor or hospital. The times of the Warsaw Principality and the present.