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An atlas of the Partitioning of Poland

CHODZKO, Leonard & DUFOUR, Auguste-Henri.

Atlante Istorico, Politico e Statistico della Polonia Antica e Moderna, con la indicazione dei suoi diversi smembramenti e divisioni.
Capolago (Switzerland): Tipografia Elvetica, 1832. Folio, original wrappers with title label and description; engr. title with colour key, folding map surrounded by letterpress, seven double-page maps, all with original hand colour, with descriptive labels pasted bottom right.

A collection of maps illustrating the history of the dismemberment of Poland at the hands of Russia, Austria and Prussia. The seven double-page maps, each printed from the same plate, have been coloured differently and given a title label to show the various stages: Poland and its provinces, 1768; the First Dismemberment, 1772; the Second Dismemberment, 1793; the 'annihilation' of Poland as a kingdom, 1795; the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw by Napoleon, 1807; the Second Duchy of Warsaw, 1809 (with land won back from Austria after Wagram); and the New Kingdom of Poland, 1815 (as partitioned by the Congress of Vienna).
The maps were prepared by Leonard Chodzko (1800-71), a Polish historian and political activist during the Polish November Uprising of 1830-1. When its failure started the Great Emigration he spent the rest of his life in France.


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Stock Id :21937

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An atlas of the Partitioning of Poland

CHODZKO, Leonard & DUFOUR, Auguste-Henri.

Atlante Istorico, Politico e Statistico della Polonia Antica e Moderna, con la indicazione dei suoi diversi smembramenti e divisioni.
Capolago (Switzerland): Tipografia Elvetica, 1832. Folio, original wrappers with title label and description; engr. title with colour key, folding map surrounded by letterpress, seven double-page maps, all with original hand colour, with descriptive labels pasted bottom right.

A collection of maps illustrating the history of the dismemberment of Poland at the hands of Russia, Austria and Prussia. The seven double-page maps, each printed from the same plate, have been coloured differently and given a title label to show the various stages: Poland and its provinces, 1768; the First Dismemberment, 1772; the Second Dismemberment, 1793; the 'annihilation' of Poland as a kingdom, 1795; the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw by Napoleon, 1807; the Second Duchy of Warsaw, 1809 (with land won back from Austria after Wagram); and the New Kingdom of Poland, 1815 (as partitioned by the Congress of Vienna).
The maps were prepared by Leonard Chodzko (1800-71), a Polish historian and political activist during the Polish November Uprising of 1830-1. When its failure started the Great Emigration he spent the rest of his life in France.


Stock ID : 21937

£1,800

£1,800

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