Koolernaut - COMMENTS ON THE POSITION OF THIS PART OF THE POLISH LAND Leipzig 1808

[Hugo COLLINS]

COMMENTS

ON THE PRESENT LOCATION OF

OF THE PART OF POLAND

which

SINCE THE PEACE OF TILSIT,

HAS BEEN CALLED

THE DUCHY OF WARSAW

in Leipzig (właśc. Warszawa) 1808, p. 222, format 11x19cm

Rare variant with a printing "mistake" on page 222 [!]

One of the most interesting Polish political treatises by Hugon Kołłątaj (1750-1812), a famous Enlightenment politician, thinker, publicist, writer, co-founder of the May 3 Constitution.

The work, published anonymously, being an apologia for Emperor Napoleon and praise of the Duchy of Warsaw, also finds justification in the national raison d'état, current at the time, aiming at an alliance with France, in the further perspective of the division of the continent into two empires: western and Russian.

Kołłątaja sees the restoration of Poland both in the old borders in the east and the Piast borders in the west,inclusion with Silesia.

Rare.

HARDCOVER FULL LEATHER CONTEMPORARY IN STYLE WITH REFERENCE TO EXQUISITE PERIOD BINDINGS, STRIKING GILT BORDERS ON COVERS, FLAT SPINE WITH SIGNBOARD AND GILT, HAND STAINED MARBLED PAPER ON ENDPAPERS, TRIMS DECORATED WITH THE SAME PATTERN.

BDB-/ condition, annotation 'Hufa Kołłątaja' on pr. of title, VERY BEAUTIFUL Pieces.