Topographical Atlas of Paris from the First Empire Period

Topographical atlas of Paris from the First Empire period (before Georges Haussmann’s great renovation, which radically changed the urban layout of the old city) entitled "La topographie de Paris, ou plan detaille de la ville de Paris et de ses faubourgs…" The atlas shows Paris from the period when many Poles, emigrants and soldiers who participated in the Napoleonic wars stayed in the city. The atlas is bound. Format 8 (21 × 12 cm). It contains 116 pages, including the half-title page, title page, introduction and 108 pages with lists of streets, squares, buildings and other topographical features, as well as 20 leaves of a detailed city plan with an index map. The atlas falls within the Ossolineum’s collecting scope which focuses on works concerning Poland and related to Poland.