U progu nowożytnej polskiej bibliografii dziedzinowej. Julian Aleksander Kamiński i jego Piśmiennictwo polskie rolniczo-technologiczne od roku 1549 do 1835 (1836)

Abstract

Subject bibliography in Poland started to be genuinely developed as late as in the nineteenth century. Historia literatury polskiej wystawiona w spisie dziel drukiem ogloszonych (Vilnius 1814) of Feliks Bentkowski was the first reference book in this field. Since 1830 subject bibliography was a domain not only of librarians, writers or historicians of literature but also scholars, professors and community organisers. Inspired by Bentkowski’s contribution, Julian Aleksander Kaminski (1805-1860) compiled the first Polish bibliography of agriculture Piśmiennictwo polskie rolniczo-technologiczne od roku 1540 do 1835 (Lviv 1836) - in fact one of the earliest editorially self-contained bibliography in Poland. It consisted of 358 entries in chronological order, out of which 260 dated from the nineteenth century. Some entries were augmented by annotations. Kaminski put visible effort to employ most bibliographic rules prevailing at that time, in particular with respect to compiling bibliographic description. Although a couple of methodological shortcomings were also present in this work, it proved Kaminski’s expertise in the field of bibliography and his ability to difference between bibliography and history of literature.