KONECZNY Felix [ed.] - Poland in universal culture [set of 2 volumes] [1918].

Krakow 1918, Polish Savings and Loan Companies. 15.5x23.5 cm, pp. XXIII, 419, XXV, 649 (2 volumes in 2 volumes - set), half cloth bookbinding, publisher's prospectus enclosed. Good condition (ex librisy on the covers, rubbed gilt on the spines, isolated minor soiling, half of the front cover missing in volume I).

Contents include: The specificity of Polish culture and its relation to the West (S. Kutrzeba). Defense of Western culture (W. Konopczyński). Socio-state ideas of Poland (S. Kutrzeba). Participation of Poles in freedom fights in the post-partition era (B. Limanowski). Kosciuszko in America. The unification of the ideals of Poland and America (W. Sobieski). Polish influence in Lithuania and Eastern Slavonia (A. Bruckner). Polish activities in the Balkans and further East (J. Grzegorzewski). Polish philosophical thought; Polish educational thought (M. Straszewski). Political conditions of economic work in the Congress Kingdom (T. Lulek). Inventory of secondary schools in Lithuania and Rus, destroyed by the Russian government (Volyn, by J. M. Gizycki). Visual arts (S. Tomkowicz). The influence of Polish literature in the Slavic region (F. Koneczny). Geography and travel (S. Pawlowski and E. Romer). Botany and zoology in Poland from the earliest times until the opening of the Main School in Warsaw (J. Rostafinski). Geology; with a census of Polish workers in geology since the beginning of the 19th century (A. Galecki). Mining and metallurgical industry in the Kingdom of Poland (J. Hofman). Plant breeding in post-partition Poland (K. Miczyński). Poland's economic and scientific participation in the widespread breeding of domestic animals (K. Malsburg).