Krakow 1870, printing house of "Czas" by W. Kirchmayer. 14.5x22 cm, pp. XIX, 504, hardback binding, full leather, five-panel spine, embossing. Good condition (local soiling of the pages, small understamping of one page, notes in crayon in a dozen places, traces of dampstaining on Gloger's pamphlet).
First edition. A detailed study of source documents relating to the nobility, much of it Podlasie, taken from grodzki and land registers kept in the court archives of Brańsk, Drohichy, Surask, Mielniki and others. Bound in the same volume is the pamphlet Dawna ziemia bielska i jej cząstkowa szlachta by Zygmunt Gloger, Warsaw 1873, Printing House of Jozef Berger.