NIEWĘGŁOWSKI Henryk Grach - GEOMETRY by... Professor of Differential and Integral Calculus at the Higher Polish School in Paris. Second edition completely rewritten and enlarged. Paris - Lviv 1869; Paris in K. Królikowski's Bookstore, Lviv in Karol Wild's Bookstore Kommis. Dimensions 21.5x15cm; pages XIV, [1], 780, illustrations in the text. Half leather binding of the period(scuffs), marbled page trims. Sparse foxing - discoloration of paper, characteristic of the era, dampstains. Very good condition.
Innovative geometry textbook published at the expense of Count Jan Dzialynski, by Henryk Grach Niewablowski (1807-1881), participant in the November Uprising, emigration activist. In 1850-1871 Niewęgłowski was a professor of mathematics and mechanics (and for a few years director) at the Polish School of Montparnassus in Paris.
