[FIRST STUDY OF CARTOGRAPHY OF POLISH LANDS] RASTAWIECKI- MAPPOGRAFIA DAWNEJ POLSKI 1846

RASTAWIECKI Edward

MAPPOGRAPHY OF OLD POLAND

Warsaw 1846, in S. Orgelbrand Printing House, pp [4], X, [4], 159, [2]; format 13x21cm

The first and for many years the only study of the cartography of the Polish lands, containing descriptions of about 150 maps of the Polish lands according to territorial arrangement (European Sarmatia, All Poland, Greater Poland, Prussia, Lesser Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Inflants and Courlandia), as well as clerical maps, geological maps and mine plans, water maps.

For compiling the work presented here, the author became a member of the Russian Geographical Society in 1846.

HARDCOVER FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER STYLIZED FOR THE ERA, DECORATIVE BLIND-STAMPED BORDERS ON THE COVERS, DECORATIVE SPINE, GILT CARD TRIMS, HAND-MARBLED PAPER ON THE ENDPAPERS

Condition BDB-/ on back of k.tyt. and last k. ink smudged ownership marks, otherwise a NICE piece

Provenance: On title page signature of Tymoteusz Łuniewski (1847-1905), landowner, social activist and January Uprising insurgent.