A set of texts and plates in the original 1845 edition. All in a common contemporary half leather binding.
Interior with minor dampstaining of the beginning and end pages, up to about 34 and from 169. Block size 24 x 19 cm, which has preserved quite nice margins of the text part. Of the plates, only T.XVI with a trimmed frame, but no coin jam. The others framed quite unevenly, but without jammed imagery.
- edition: Warsaw 1845
- outer format: 21 x 25 cm
- block format: 24 x 19 cm, all boards fully preserved, no frame clipping
- 191 pages of text, 18 pages of index of works and 60 plates
This is a classic of Polish numismatic literature. The second comprehensive catalog of Polish coins, published just after Steszinski-Bandtkie's "Domestic Numismatics" was published 5 years earlier. It covers the modern period from 1506 and is much more detailed on the subject than "Domestic Numismatics". Not surprisingly, it quickly became the primary and reference catalog for coin collectors of the time. It maintained this status in practice until the early 20th century.
Thanks to the extensive textual part and, above all, the publication of numerous mint documents, the item is still useful today.
