The New Warsaw Journal. A historical, political, and scientific and technical journal. Volume IV. October, November, December [1801] [first publication of Ignacy Krasicki’s “Letters on Gardens”]

Warsaw, 1801. Printed at the 20th Piarist Press. 11x18.5 cm, pp. (4), 384, hardcover with a small label. Good condition (some wear on the binding).

Volume IV from 1801 of the *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 other things: An excerpt from Mungo Park’s journey through the interior of Africa. A description of the negotiations, held on two separate occasions, between J. Zamoyski, Chancellor of the Kingdom of Poland, and P. Vanozzi, sent to him by Cardinal Henryk Caetani, Legate a letere of Pope Clement VIII, in the year 1596—an excerpt from a manuscript in the library of the Princes of Albani in Rome. On the Name of Ukraine and the Origins of the Cossacks, by Tadeusz Czacki. A Sketch of Copenhagen and the Customs of Its Inhabitants. A Description of the City of Moscow from the work of P. J. Richter. On Man, His Faculties, and Passions, from Kant’s work titled “Practical Anthropology.” Methods for Preserving and Prolonging Life for the Weak and Sickly. Letters (VII–X) on the gardens of Ignacy Krasicki (first publication —Krasicki’s final work, written shortly before his death in 1801). On tithes. On the wedding customs of villagers in Silesia.