Carte de la Pologne: Divisée par provinces et palatinats et subdivisée par districts.., 1772

1772  Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni: “Carte de la Pologne: Divisée par provinces et palatinats et subdivisée par districts…” (Map of Poland with its provinces, voivodeships, lands, and and further sub-
divided by their sub-districts), Paris, in two versions. Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski, governor of Novogrudok — in today’s Belarus — was an avid map collector. Under his supervision, and with his financial support, the Italian cartographer Rizzi-Zannoni created this atlas using materials from Jabłonowski’s collection. It is a detailed, large-scale, 25-sheet atlas of engraved maps of Poland before the partitions of 1772, 1793, and 1795. It is the only atlas from this period showing future Belarusian lands in detail and drawn to scale. Inscriptions are in Polish, French, and Ottoman Turkish (لسان عثمانى‎‎ Lisân-ı Osmânî ).

Maps are from a. University College of London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies:ssees, or b. Silesian Digital Library:SDL — both via www.mapywig.org