Warsaw 1763. cost Imci Pana GröllKommisarza y Bibliopoli J. K. Mci w Mariwilu, w Drukarni Jego Królew. Mci y Rzeczypospolitey Collegium Soc. Jesu. 9.5x16 cm, pp. (8), 423, vignettes in woodcut, period half leather binding. Good condition (rubbing of binding, loss of leather on spine, traces of foxing).
First edition of the heraldry compiled by Benedykt Chmielowski (1700-1763), priest, writer, author, among others, of "New Athens" - one of the first Polish encyclopedias. It was based on Kasper Niesiecki's coat of arms, and was published posthumously from a manuscript found in the Załuski Library, as indicated by a printed dedication by bookseller and printer Michał Gröllto Józef Załuski, placed before the text.