KO£¡RAÑA Hugo - Uwagi nad teraźnieyszem położeniem tey części ziemi polskiey, które od pokoiu tylżyckiego began to be called the Warsaw Province. Nil desperandum! [Leipzig 1808]

Leipzig 1808. 13.5x20.5 cm, pp. 222, contemporary bookbinding, half leather with gilt on spine, signed with sticker of MillaArte bindery. Good condition (rust spots, uneven page edges).

Piece from the book collection (stamp and ownership entry) of Apolonia Dunin-Brzezińska h. Łabędź. Not much is known about her life - in 1821 she married Antoni Jankowski h. Nowina, general of the Polish Army, one of the highest commanders of the November Uprising, who was hanged on a lamp post in 1831 by a Warsaw mob enraged by the failure of the uprising.

Published anonymously, Kollataj's book in which he lectures on his geopolitical views in connection with the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw. In contents: In what state did the Duchy of Warsaw find itself after the Treaty of Tilsit? Why was this part of the Land of Poland given such a peculiar name? What do foreign and our critics think about the Duchy of Warsaw? What were the reasons that impelled the great Napoleon to change his policy in Europe and to introduce a new arrangement of it? What does this new political arrangement seem to be, and on what principles does it ground itself? What reasons could have induced the Great Napoleon to establish the Duchy of Warsaw, and what use could such a small State be in the arrangement of the new policy? How beneficial to the Polish nation were Napoleon's views in establishing the Duchy of Warsaw? Remarks over the malicious charges of partisans unfriendly to our good neighbors. A few words to the citizens of the Duchy of Warsaw.