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Antoni Okolski, A Treatise on Administrative Law and the Administrative Law in Force in the Kingdom of Poland. Vol. I–III [1880–1884]
Title: A Lecture on Administrative Law and the Administrative Law in Force in the Kingdom of Poland. Vol. I–III.
Author: Antoni Okolski (1838–1897) [lawyer, professor of administrative law at the Main School and the Imperial University of Warsaw, author of the first Polish textbook on administrative law].
Publisher: Warsaw, Editorial Board of the Library of Legal Sciences. Series: Library of Legal Sciences.
Year of publication: 1880–1884.
Format: 22 cm.
Volume: [6], 475, VII; 503, IX; 518, IX pp.
Binding: Period half-leather binding.
This is the first Polish textbook on administrative law, published in three complete volumes between 1880 and 1884. Eugeniusz Ochendowski described it in the same terms in his 1981 article “The First Textbook on Administrative Law on the Centennial of the Publication of Antoni Okolski’s Textbook.” In it, Okolski attempted to define the very concept of administrative law. He began by distinguishing between administration in the broad sense—encompassing foreign relations, finance, the military, the judiciary, and internal administration—and in the narrow sense, that is, internal administration. He defined administrative law in this narrow sense as a system of regulations through which the state creates the conditions for the comprehensive development of society. Legal historians emphasize that this was the only such attempt in Poland during the 19th century. The author combined his theoretical exposition with a discussion of the regulations in force in the Kingdom of Poland—that is, the administrative order established after the January Uprising. The work was published in the series “Biblioteka Umiejętności Prawnych” and remains a fundamental text in the history of Polish administrative law scholarship.
Antoni Okolski, whose full name was Stanisław Antoni Zygmunt Okolski, was born in 1838. He studied law in Moscow and St. Petersburg and continued his studies abroad, including in Paris and at German universities. He taught public and administrative law at the Warsaw Main School and later at the Imperial University of Warsaw. In 1872, he earned his habilitation based on his dissertation “On the State’s Relationship to Public Education.” In 1885, he became a full professor, and in 1894, he retired. He also specialized in civil law and civil procedure. Among other works, he published “The Political Systems of European Countries and the United States of America.” He died in 1897.
Provenance: the title page bears Bronisław Rakowiecki’s handwritten ownership signature. Numerous underlinings in the text indicate that the piece was used for work—either by a practicing lawyer or a law student.
A complete set of three volumes of this seminal work, which marks the beginning of Polish administrative law scholarship, in period bindings and bearing traces of the former owner’s reading. A must-have for historians of law and administration, researchers of the history of the Kingdom of Poland, and collectors of vintage legal literature.
The sections are intact; the pages show natural yellowing of the paper and signs of use, with underlines in the text made by the former owner. The binding is a period half-leather binding, with natural wear on the spine and corners.
Catalog ID: 7535x1-22-A-Z
Title: A Lecture on Administrative Law and the Administrative Law in Force in the Kingdom of Poland. Vol. I–III.
Author: Antoni Okolski (1838–1897) [lawyer, professor of administrative law at the Main School and the Imperial University of Warsaw, author of the first Polish textbook on administrative law].
Publisher: Warsaw, Editorial Board of the Library of Legal Sciences. Series: Library of Legal Sciences.
Year of publication: 1880–1884.
Format: 22 cm.
Volume: [6], 475, VII; 503, IX; 518, IX pp.
Binding: Period half-leather binding.
This is the first Polish textbook on administrative law, published in three complete volumes between 1880 and 1884. Eugeniusz Ochendowski described it in the same terms in his 1981 article “The First Textbook on Administrative Law on the Centennial of the Publication of Antoni Okolski’s Textbook.” In it, Okolski attempted to define the very concept of administrative law. He began by distinguishing between administration in the broad sense—encompassing foreign relations, finance, the military, the judiciary, and internal administration—and in the narrow sense, that is, internal administration. He defined administrative law in this narrow sense as a system of regulations through which the state creates the conditions for the comprehensive development of society. Legal historians emphasize that this was the only such attempt in Poland during the 19th century. The author combined his theoretical exposition with a discussion of the regulations in force in the Kingdom of Poland—that is, the administrative order established after the January Uprising. The work was published in the series “Biblioteka Umiejętności Prawnych” and remains a fundamental text in the history of Polish administrative law scholarship.
Antoni Okolski, whose full name was Stanisław Antoni Zygmunt Okolski, was born in 1838. He studied law in Moscow and St. Petersburg and continued his studies abroad, including in Paris and at German universities. He taught public and administrative law at the Warsaw Main School and later at the Imperial University of Warsaw. In 1872, he earned his habilitation based on his dissertation “On the State’s Relationship to Public Education.” In 1885, he became a full professor, and in 1894, he retired. He also specialized in civil law and civil procedure. Among other works, he published “The Political Systems of European Countries and the United States of America.” He died in 1897.
Provenance: the title page bears Bronisław Rakowiecki’s handwritten ownership signature. Numerous underlinings in the text indicate that the piece was used for work—either by a practicing lawyer or a law student.
A complete set of three volumes of this seminal work, which marks the beginning of Polish administrative law scholarship, in period bindings and bearing traces of the former owner’s reading. A must-have for historians of law and administration, researchers of the history of the Kingdom of Poland, and collectors of vintage legal literature.
The sections are intact; the pages show natural yellowing of the paper and signs of use, with underlines in the text made by the former owner. The binding is a period half-leather binding, with natural wear on the spine and corners.
Catalog ID: 7535x1-22-A-Z
