[The Bar Confederation]. Pac, Michał. Bohusz Ignacy. Manifesto of the Confederate Republic of Poland. November 15, 1769. Translated from Polish. No place, 1770.

[The Bar Confederation]. Pac, Michał. Bohusz Ignacy. Manifesto of the Confederated Republic of Poland. November 15, 1769. Translated from Polish. No place, 1770. No title page, 4°, pp. 141, [3], 293, [3], period binding, cloth, embossed and gilded title label, marbled paper, colored page edges.

E.XXIV, 6; XXII, 122; XXXII, 452. A collection of historical documents concerning the Bar Confederation, translated into French. The volume contains the texts of 42 documents from the years 1764–1769 (manifestos, acts of the confederation, instructions, proclamations, speeches, declarations, and excerpts). Among the authors of the documents are, among others: Radziwiłł, Chreptowicz, Pociey, Wielhorski, Repnin, Marian Potocki, Golicyn, “He describes in detail the oppression by Moscow” (Estreicher). The initiative to compile this publication is attributed to Michał Jan Pac (1730–1787), Lithuanian General Marshal of the Bar Confederation and owner of Dowspuda and Krzyżtopór Castle; the task was most likely carried out by Ignacy Bohusz (1720–1778), secretary of the Confederation’s General Staff. The front endpaper bears a label from the Parisian bookseller Jean Clavreuil. There is slight discoloration and staining in places; otherwise, the book is in very good condition. A valuable source for the history of the Bar Confederation. Rare.