[GREATER POLAND]. SŁUPSKI Zygmunt Światopełk - Atlas ziemii polskich. T. 1, part 1: Wielkie Duchy of Poznań. 46 maps and plans. In appendix the colors and coats of arms of the former provinces, with its boundaries, and the coats of arms of both dioceses and all cities (132). Poznan [1912]. Gebethner and Wolff. 8 podł., f. [3], maps 46. opr. original leather with preserved brochure cover.
CKZK 3, 1667. Cover abrasions, slight loss of spine, signboard on spine partially obliterated, covers broch. loosened, minor staining of title page, front pastedown missing, rear foxing torn. Bibliot. stamp. Ex. complete. Printed card pasted in at the beginning: 'Only 50 [number crossed out and handwritten 40] such pieces selected and hand-corrected, named and numbered', below the author's signature and handwritten No. 25. On the title page a protective stamp with the Lis coat of arms. Includes title page, author's preface, list of planned volumes, list of maps included in this volume, two historical maps, map of the Grand Duchy of Poznan, 40 maps of counties in the Poznan and Bydgoszcz districts (numbered I-XL), plans of Poznan, Bydgoszcz and Gniezno. By each map colorful coats of arms of cities and lands. The following parts of the atlas were not published. "This edition should be valued primarily because the author made every effort to use indigenous Polish nomenclature for individual, even the tiniest localities" (K.Szykuła "Cartographer's Collections. Bibliot. Uniwersytecka we Wrocławiu", Wr. 1978, s. 116). Rare.
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