Print of hand colored steel engraving titled „Carte Physique et Politique de al Rissie de la Pologne”.

Drawn by L. Dussieux.

Engraved by unknown.

From „Atlas General De Geographie physique, politique et historique par L. Dussieux. Atlas de Geographie ancienne, du moyen age et Moderne“. Paris. 1854.

Louis-Étienne Dussieux, born April 5, 1815 in Lyon and died February 11, 1894 in Paris. He was a French historian-geographer.

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Approx. image size 38, 6 x 27, 2/43, 3 x 31, 7 cm. Condition: good.