The New Warsaw Journal. A Historical, Political, and Scientific and Technical Journal. Volume III. July, August, September [1801] [first publication of Ignacy Krasicki’s “Letters on Gardens”]

Warsaw, 1801. Printed at the 20th Piarist Press. 11x18.5 cm, pp. (4), 380, hardcover with a small label. Good condition (scuffs on the binding, stains along the page edges).

Volume III from 1801 of *Nowy Pamiętnik Warszawski* (New Warsaw Memoir), a Warsaw-based political and literary monthly published from 1801 to 1805 under the editorship of Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski. The journal was associated with the Society of Friends of Science and addressed topics in the fields of history, politics, literature, science, and culture.

Contents include, among others: An account of the travels of Madame de Guebriant, extraordinary envoy to Poland during the reign of Władysław IV. On the influence Frederick II had on the education and enlightenment of his age—a work by Jan Jerzy Gebbard, honored by the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. On Lithuanian and Polish laws, their relationship, etc., by Tadeusz Czacki (second excerpt). Physics, Enriched by the Latest Discoveries and Confirmed by the Most Obvious Experiments, by Father Józef Osiński. Letters on Cowpox to a Lady, by Dr. Colladon. A Health Journal for All Social Classes, by J.P. Lafontaine, M.D., Ph.D. How to Care for Foals During Their First Four Years, an excerpt from the manuscript of Mr. Waldstein, former director of the hospital in Vienna. On Splenitis in Cattle. Letters (IV–VI) on the Gardens of Ignacy Krasicki (first edition —Krasicki’s final work, written shortly before his death in 1801). On the State of Education, Sciences, and Skills in Poland, by Mr. Muray.