Slawianin a weekly magazine for the trades, agriculture, commerce, household and for the needs of practical life in general.
[Year I], No.2) On Saturday 7, February 1829 - 26) On Saturday 25, July 1829.
Warsaw 1829. by the publisher. Printed by Węcki.
Stapled volume, cover and first number missing, paper back cover, pp. 17- 416, mdz. double plates to no. 10 [II-III?], IV-XI (two sheets with 2 plates).
Condition: to the semiannual, number one and plate number I are missing, plate to number 10 is probably the missing II-III (in digitized collections there is a different publisher's version of it, with different descriptions, labeled as double plates II and III), dampstains at the bottom, some pages uncut, outer pages more heavily soiled creased, with small tears, center relatively clean, pp. 223/224 with a tear at the spine.
Almost complete first half of the periodical "Slavianin", which was published from January 31, 1829 to January 2, 1830 (52 issues). The editor was Adam Maksymilian Kitajewski (1789-1837), chemist, pharmacist, professor at Warsaw University. The magazine was thematically similar to the journal "Izys Polska czyli dziennik umiejętności, wynalazków, kunsztów i rękodzieł, poświęcony krajowemu przemysłowi, tudzież potrzeby wieyskiego i mieyskiego gospodarstwa."
coming out in 1820-28.
Contents include.: technological information/guides (artificial marbles, dyeing of various materials, Turkish artificial pink pearls, tinsmithing, artificial ultramarine, engraving on steel, obtaining stain-used in hat-making for dyeing black, porcelain lacquers for leather, shoe blackening, methods of gilding and bronzing metals, chemistry - new chemical compounds and their properties, gold and platinum mines in America and Russia, salt mines in Thuringia, geognostic description of Poland, new way of drawing in isometric perspective, improvement of the barometer ); Homesteading (fast obtaining of nutritious broth, dairy farm in Carinthia - experiments in making cream and butter, exemplary sheep breeding in Russia, making mustard, comparison of rye and potatoes in the context of making vodka, homemade obtaining of vinegars and yeast, flower gardens and coniferous gauge by English example, usefulness of juniper, use of potatoes to feed livestock, Parmesan cheese, beet sugar, storing butter, growing potatoes, tooth powders and lip pomades, making soap, sowing barley, agricultural calendar for June, cleaning honey, equine pneumonia, the Brabant plow), weekly observations of the Warsaw Astronomical Observatory (also meteorological); morality; mathematics; institutions (the Paris Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, the new Industrial School of Paris, the Bank of England, the School for Poor Girls in Mulhausen, the chemical laboratory in Utrecht).
