Poland during the Deluge

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Nova Descriptio Totius Regni Polonici Nec Non Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae cum suis Palatinatibus Castellanis ac Confinis

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GUDICANUS, Augustinus
Cologne,
Johann Antonius Kinckius,
1658
328 by 305mm. (13 by 12 inches).
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A rare zoomorphic map showing Poland as an eagle, originally a folding plate bound in to Borussian author Augustinus Gudicanus' description of Poland, 'Polonia, sive nova regni Poloniae', published in Cologne in 1658.

Poland is drawn in the shape of a crowned white eagle, the national symbol. A white eagle supposedly landed in a tree to show Lech, the legendary founder of the country, where he should make his capital. It became the symbol of the royal family of ...

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Thomasz Niewodniczanski, Imago Poloniae: Das Polnisch-litauische Reich in Karten, Dokumenten und alten Drucken in der Sammlung von Tomasz Niewodniczanski (Warsaw: Warta, 2002) vol.I, H1/6, p.40-41.