Jan Paweł Biretowski (9 June 1705 – 13 September 1781) was a
Polish baroque
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scholar and
publisher
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of a
self-help
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When ...
book bearing a paragraph-long title translated as the ''Interesting News, Important to Everyone, About the Power of all Grain, Vegetables and Various Herbs both Domestic and Wild, What Results and Benefits they Bring to Man in Various Circumstances; How Unique They Are for Preservation of the Man's Well-being, Written By Serious Scholars thus Collected and Printed in 1769 in
Łowicz
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on the orders of
Jan Zamoyski
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the Ordinate and
Voivode
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of
Podolia
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, and Reprinted in 1772 by Paweł Jan Biretowski''.
The book title reads in the
Old . The book, signed by Paweł Jan Biretowski, is available through specialized libraries worldwide.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Biretowski, Jan Pawel
1705 births
1781 deaths
Polish publishers (people)
18th-century Polish–Lithuanian writers