Warsaw 1824; printed by N. Glucksberg. 13x22 cm, pp. (14), (4), XXVI, 848, 44 [2 volumes, continuous pagination], black and white fold-out maps in the text (5), publisher's booklet binding. Very good condition.
First edition.
From the manuscript of the Library of Puławy and Józef hrabiego Sierakowski, published through the effort and expense of the Royal Warsaw Society of the Friends of Science.
The most important work in the oeuvre of Adam Naruszewicz (1733-1796), written at the request of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski. The set constitutes 7 volumes. Volume I was published after the author's death, because, as Jan Straus writes: "its publication was blocked in the Stanislavski era by Tsarina Catherine, unable to reconcile herself to the fact that Polish history could be older than Moscow's."