Cartography 

The museum's cartographic collection includes maps from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Among them, the maps of canon Waclaw Grodecki (1535-1591), one of the first Polish cartographers, as well as the work of John Speed (1552-1629) - Map of Poland and Silesia with views of cities (Krakow, Gdansk, Poznan, Krosno, Sandomierz, Wroclaw) and figures in period costumes deserve special mention. Also noteworthy are maps by Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667), founder of the French cartographic school.
 
The eighteenth century features more than forty maps, including the Carte de la Pologne... of 1781, compiled by Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni (1736-1814), the Map with the Coat of Arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the coat of arms of Augustus III Saxon placed in the heart-shield, by engraver and publisher Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777) and co-author Matthäus Georg Seutter (1678-1756). The collection also includes a Map of the Whole World, decorated according to the Observations of the Royal Academy of the (or)) (from the), made by Johann Walch (1757-1816) and an atlas compiled by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann (1754-1840).
 
Among the maps of the 19th century, of particular note are the works of Joseph Wilson Lowry (1803-1879), John Dower (1825-1901), as well as Poland in the Duchy of Warsaw and maps of Poland divided between Austria and Russia, compiled by Tranquilla Mollo (1767-1837).
 
The 20th century includes more than 100 maps, including Poland, the great kingdom of abundant forests, a paradise of hunting..., published in 1938 by the Central Board of State Forests in Warsaw. The collection also includes maps of the Battle of Monte Cassino, based on Italian maps by the 12th Geographical Company of the 2. Polish Corps, maps concerning the Offensive of Gazala (14-17 December 1941), the Defense of El Mechili (28 I - 3 II 1942), as well as the Map of Nazi Crimes on Polish Lands in 1939-1945, edited by Jan Laskowski (1927-2019) by Stefan Guirard, Janusz Gumkowski (1905-1984) and Kazimierz Leszczynski (1913-1977), published by the Eugeniusz Romer State Enterprise of Cartographic Publishing in Warsaw in 1962.

There is also a plan of the city of Warsaw, a copy based on a four-card plan of Warsaw by Pierre Ricaud de Tirregaille (1725-after 1772), first published in 1762, and maps published by the National Geographic Society, in the 1950s.

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