An atlas of the Partitioning of Poland

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 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.