Polish Geographical Society Collection

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The collection gathers items from 26 thousand. book collection of the Polish Geographical Society, collected in the years 1918-1953. It was the beginning of the collection of the present Central Library of Geography and Environmental Protection of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. It contains books, magazines, maps and atlases, including geographic positions, travel and sightseeing literature. Among the founders of the PTG, as you can read on the Society's home page, there were professors from the universities of Warsaw and Jagiellonian (including Stanisław Lencewicz, Jan Lewiński, Jerzy Loth, Bolesław Olszewicz, Stanisław Poniatowski and Ludomir Sawicki). The founding members were people of various professions and scientific specialties: geographers, economists, historians, sociologists, meteorologists, geologists, botanists, zoologists and anthropologists. This is reflected in the subject and quality of the collection. After the end of World War II, the collection of the Library of the Society, thanks to numerous donations, grew quickly and today constitute a valuable collection of books maps and atlases.

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Carte ethnographique de la Hongrie en 1910 : sur la base de la carte ethnographique (échelle 1:200.000)

Bátky, Zsigmond (1874–1939) Kogutowicz, Károly (1886–1948) Teleki, Pál (1879–1941)

1940

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Grossostasien Maßstab 1;20 000 000

1944

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New South Wales : scale 1:2,218,000 (35 miles = 1 inch)

[1950]

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Indie orientali : scala 1:4,000,000. Foglio ovest 1

druk 1941

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Indie orientali : scala 1:4,000,000. Foglio est 2

druk 1941

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Hong Kong and the New Territories : north sheet : scale 1:80,000

1949

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West Indies : scale 1:5,000,000 (80 miles = 1 inch)

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Spanish Morocco : special strategic map : scale 1:750,000

1943

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Hong Kong and the Lema Island : south sheet : scale 1:80,000

1949

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Polar regions : Scale 1:35.000.000

[między 1918 i 1938]

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Air map of the world centred on Pearl Harbour : scale 1:50,000,000 along straight lines (great circles) radial from Pearl Harbour

1947

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The Japanese Empire with central and southern Manchuria : scale 1:3,000,000 (47 miles = 1 inch)

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România : cu noile frontiere admise de Congresul de la Paris şi numirele Româneşti ale tuturor localitâţilor la scara 1:1.000.000

Teodorescu, Constantin (1863–1942) Meruţiu, Vasile (1881–1943)

1921

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Russia in Europe and its border states : scale 1:6,526,000 (103 Miles = 1 Inch)

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New war map of the world : 1942

1942

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South East Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and parts of Queensland & South Australia : scale 1:3,420,000 (54 miles = 1 inch)

[1950]

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Schlag nach über Skandinavien : Kartenbeilage

1940

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Air map of the world centred on Delhi : scale 1:50,000,000 along straight lines (great circles) radial from Delhi

1946

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Süditalien und Adriaküsten : Maßstab von 1:1.500.000

Kettler, Julius Iwan (1852–1921) Bludau, Alois (1861–1913) Herkt, Otto (1885–1925) Hoch, C. Melching, Oswald

[1915]

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Südeuropa : mittl. Blatt : Maßstab 1:1 500 000 : Grundlage: Stielers Handatlas

[1944]

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Sprawozdanie Komisji Fizjograficznej T. 40 (1905)

1907

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The land of the pink pearl or Recollections of life in the Bahamas

Powles, Louis Diston (1842–1911) Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Wydawca

1888

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Sprawozdanie Komisji Fizjograficznej T. 38 (1902 i 1903)

1905

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The great lone land : a tale of travel and adventure in the north-west of America

Butler, William Francis (1838–1910)

1907

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A thousand miles up the Nile

Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford (1831–1892) Pearson, George (czynny 1850-1910). Il. George Routledge and Sons.

1889

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With Kitchener to Khartum

Steevens, George Warrington (1869–1900)

[post 1900]

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Fifty years of travel by land water, and air

Butler, Frank Hedges (1855–1928) T. Fisher Unwin

1920

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The head-hunters of Borneo : a narrative of travel up the Mahakkam and down the Barito : also, journeyings in Sumatra

Bock, Carl (1849–1932) Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Wydawca

1882

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Voyage of the paper canoe : a geographical journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5

Bishop, Nathaniel Holmes (1837–1902) David Douglas

1878

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Through the dark continent : or, the sources of the Nile, around the great lakes of equatorial Africa, and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean : in four volumes. Vol. 1

Stanley, Henry Morton (1841–1904) Karl Grädener

1878

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A trip round the world in 1887-8

Caine, William Sproston (1842–1903) Pedder, John (1850–1929) Sheppard Dale, Henry (1852–1921) Bickham, George (1706?-1771) George Routledge and Sons. Wydawca

1888

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