Cracow 1857, with the fonts and circulation of the "Czas" Printing House. 13x20 cm, pp. (8), 803, VII, half leather binding of the period. Good condition (rubbing of the binding, supplemented loss of the title page, single rusty dings).
Book from the book collection of Juliusz Wiktor Gomulicki (1909-2006), literary historian, varsavianist, outstanding expert on the poetry of Cyprian Kamil Norwid (ownership stamps).
Volume VI (April-May-June) of 1857.
Contents include: Four-month voyage from Paris to Chili in 1838, Part II, overland journey: the Pampa and the Cordillera (Ignatius Domeyko). Judicial proceedings in disputes over the return of things leased in Galicia (Kornel Krzeczunowicz). Dresden, collections of arts and archaeology in that city (Józef Łepkowski). State and Self-government (Maurycy Mann). Exceptions from Ignacy Domeyka's letters to Adam Mickiewicz. The efforts of the Tuscan envoy Pavel Minucci at the court of Queen Louise foryting Matias Medicis Duke of Tuscany to the Polish throne, 1659 (Wladyslaw Kulczycki). Ornithological notes: the stork (Kazimierz hr. Wodzicki). Pokucie: location and physiognomy of the country, settlements, Hutsuls vs. Boykos, political accidents, how it was a hundred years ago, opprobrium (Augusta Bielowski).