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Adolphe Thiers, History of the Legislative Assemblies, the National Convention, and the Directory, or France from 1789 to 1800. Vol. IV [1846]
Title: A History of the Legislative Assemblies, the National Convention, and the Directory, or France from 1789 to 1800. Vol. IV.
Author: Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877) [French historian and politician, twice Prime Minister under Louis-Philippe, first President of the Third Republic]
Translator: Leon Rogalski (1806–1878) [historian, journalist, and translator from Vilnius and Warsaw].
Publisher: Warsaw, published and printed by S. Orgelbrand, Bookseller and Printer.
Year of publication: 1846.
Format: 24 cm.
Volume: 454, [8] pp.
Binding: cloth cover.
A Polish edition of a synthesis of the history of the French Revolution, translated from French by Leon Rogalski and published in four volumes by Samuel Orgelbrand’s publishing house. The work traces the narrative from the legislative assemblies and the National Convention through to the rule of the Directory, at the dawn of the Napoleonic era. The same author-translator-publisher trio also provided Polish readers with the eleven-volume *History of the Consulate and the Empire* (Warsaw, 1846–1866).
Adolphe Thiers combined his political career with his work as a historian. Twice, in 1836 and 1840, he served as Prime Minister of France during the reign of Louis-Philippe, and from 1871 to 1873 he was the first president of the Third Republic, during which the Paris Commune was suppressed. His works on the French Revolution and on the Consulate and the Empire brought him international fame; they were translated into Polish and published in Warsaw by Orgelbrand.
Samuel Orgelbrand was one of Warsaw’s leading publishers in the mid-19th century; he published approximately 600 titles, and his most ambitious project was the multi-volume *Encyklopedia Powszechna* (Universal Encyclopedia).
Leon Rogalski was co-editor of the Vilnius journal “Wizerunki i Roztrząsania Naukowe” (1834–1843) and the author and translator of numerous historical works, including those by Thiers.
Provenance: a handwritten note on the first page: “Agaton Giller. Stanisławów, 7 Kamińskiego Street, at the home of Aleksander Bogdański, in the apartment of Franciszek and Agrypina Kopernicka (née Giller)—June 29, 1887,” and next to it, notes regarding duplicates. Agaton Giller (1831–1887), an independence activist and historian, was arrested in Kraków in 1853 by the Austrian police as a Russian subject and sentenced to hard labor in penal battalions in eastern Siberia, where he walked for sixteen months in chains. Upon his return in 1860, he became involved in the national movement, and during the January Uprising he served on the National Government. While in exile, he co-founded the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil. He died in Stanisławów on the night of July 17–18, 1887, at the home of his sister Agrypina and her husband Franciszek Kopernicki. Later “National Library” stamps and duplicate annotations confirm that the volume was held in the state collections.
A must-have for researchers of Agaton Giller’s biography, collectors of artifacts from the January Uprising, and enthusiasts of the history of revolutionary France and the Polish publishing movement of the mid-19th century.
The block is compact and stable; the original stitching holds firmly; there are no loose pages; the volume is complete. The paper shows numerous, pronounced discolorations and clear, old water damage marks in the margins of many pages, with no missing sections or mold; Giller’s handwriting is sharp and fully legible. The hard cloth cover is clean, with some dust and minimal scuffing on the edges of the cardboard.
Catalog ID: 12692x4-23-A-X
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Title: A History of the Legislative Assemblies, the National Convention, and the Directory, or France from 1789 to 1800. Vol. IV.
Author: Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877) [French historian and politician, twice Prime Minister under Louis-Philippe, first President of the Third Republic]
Translator: Leon Rogalski (1806–1878) [historian, journalist, and translator from Vilnius and Warsaw].
Publisher: Warsaw, published and printed by S. Orgelbrand, Bookseller and Printer.
Year of publication: 1846.
Format: 24 cm.
Volume: 454, [8] pp.
Binding: cloth cover.
A Polish edition of a synthesis of the history of the French Revolution, translated from French by Leon Rogalski and published in four volumes by Samuel Orgelbrand’s publishing house. The work traces the narrative from the legislative assemblies and the National Convention through to the rule of the Directory, at the dawn of the Napoleonic era. The same author-translator-publisher trio also provided Polish readers with the eleven-volume *History of the Consulate and the Empire* (Warsaw, 1846–1866).
Adolphe Thiers combined his political career with his work as a historian. Twice, in 1836 and 1840, he served as Prime Minister of France during the reign of Louis-Philippe, and from 1871 to 1873 he was the first president of the Third Republic, during which the Paris Commune was suppressed. His works on the French Revolution and on the Consulate and the Empire brought him international fame; they were translated into Polish and published in Warsaw by Orgelbrand.
Samuel Orgelbrand was one of Warsaw’s leading publishers in the mid-19th century; he published approximately 600 titles, and his most ambitious project was the multi-volume *Encyklopedia Powszechna* (Universal Encyclopedia).
Leon Rogalski was co-editor of the Vilnius journal “Wizerunki i Roztrząsania Naukowe” (1834–1843) and the author and translator of numerous historical works, including those by Thiers.
Provenance: a handwritten note on the first page: “Agaton Giller. Stanisławów, 7 Kamińskiego Street, at the home of Aleksander Bogdański, in the apartment of Franciszek and Agrypina Kopernicka (née Giller)—June 29, 1887,” and next to it, notes regarding duplicates. Agaton Giller (1831–1887), an independence activist and historian, was arrested in Kraków in 1853 by the Austrian police as a Russian subject and sentenced to hard labor in penal battalions in eastern Siberia, where he walked for sixteen months in chains. Upon his return in 1860, he became involved in the national movement, and during the January Uprising he served on the National Government. While in exile, he co-founded the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil. He died in Stanisławów on the night of July 17–18, 1887, at the home of his sister Agrypina and her husband Franciszek Kopernicki. Later “National Library” stamps and duplicate annotations confirm that the volume was held in the state collections.
A must-have for researchers of Agaton Giller’s biography, collectors of artifacts from the January Uprising, and enthusiasts of the history of revolutionary France and the Polish publishing movement of the mid-19th century.
The block is compact and stable; the original stitching holds firmly; there are no loose pages; the volume is complete. The paper shows numerous, pronounced discolorations and clear, old water damage marks in the margins of many pages, with no missing sections or mold; Giller’s handwriting is sharp and fully legible. The hard cloth cover is clean, with some dust and minimal scuffing on the edges of the cardboard.
Catalog ID: 12692x4-23-A-X
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