COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Staszic, Stanisław, 1755-1826
Author:
Hoffmann
Date:
1806
Short Title:
Part A. Carta Geologica totius Poloniae, Moldaviae, Transilvaniae et partis Hungariae et Valachiae
Publisher:
Stanisława Staszica
Publisher Location:
Cracow, Poland
Type:
Separate Map
Obj Height cm:
48
Obj Width cm:
66
Scale 1:
2,800,000
Note:
Hand colored map Sheet A. Includes decorative title casrtouche and legend.
Country:
Poland
Country:
Moldavia
Country:
Romania
Region:
Europe, Eastern
Subject:
Geology
Full Title:
Carta Geologica totius Poloniae, Moldaviae, Transilvaniae et partis Hungariae et Valachiae. Inventa per Staszic, anno 1806. Hoffmann delin't. Frey sculp't.
List No:
13273.001
Page No:
A
Series No:
1
Engraver or Printer:
Frey
Publication Author:
Staszic, Stanisław, 1755-1826
Publication Author:
Hoffmann
Pub Date:
1806
Pub Title:
Carta Geologica totius Poloniae, Moldaviae, Transilvaniae et partis Hungariae et Valachiae. Inventa per Staszic, anno 1806. Hoffmann delin't. Frey sculp't.
Pub Note:
One hand colored map on 4 sheets: A-D, dated 1806, is one of the earliest petroleum maps of Eastern Europe. Accompanied by untitled hand colored sheet E of geological profile of Poland and High Tatra Mountains. Includes decorative title cartouche. legend and numerical key for mountains depicted on the map. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Both maps and accompanied geological profile printed in the atlas of Stazic's O ziemiorodztwie Karpatow i Innych gor i rownin Polski, Govenment Printing Press, 1815. Ruderman "Rare separately published 4 sheet map of Eastern Europe, which is notable as the first large-format geological map of Eastern Europe and one of the world’s earliest petroleum maps. The map is accompanied by Staszic’s sheet of geological cross-sections of Poland and the High Tatra Mountains. The map is the work of Polish polymath Stanislaw Staszic and was issued in the same year as William Smith’s Geological Map of England and Wales and Part of Scotland. The map is also a milestone in Polish cartographic publishing, being one of the first sophisticated scientific maps of Poland and one of the first grand, multi-folio maps to be published in Warsaw. The map was made by the Stanisław Staszic, one of the great intellectuals of the Enlightenment Era. While Staszic and the present map are famous in Poland and revered in international scientific circles, they are largely unknown to the general public and map collectors in the West. While centered on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as it existed until 1795, the map covers most of modern Poland, all of Slovakia, Leningrad, Belarus, and Moldova, along with large parts of Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania, Hungary, Serbia and Austria. The map is accompanied by Staszic’s untitled sheet of geological profiles, or cross-sections; one of which cuts across Poland in general, while the other cuts traverses the High Tatra Mountains. The profile sheet is the first such work relating to the region. Both the 4-sheet map (labelled A-D) and the geological profile (labelled as E) were originally printed within the atlas that accompanied the text volume of Staszic’s O ziemiorodztwie Karpatow i innych gor i rownin Polski [On the Formation of the Carpathians and Other Mountains and Lowlands of Poland] (Warsaw: w Druk. Rządowei [Government Printing Press], 1815). The atlas is a thin folio, consisting of only the present map, present sheet of geological profiles, a panoramic view of the Tatra Mountains and several statistical tables. While examples of O ziemiorodztwie Karpatow are held by several institutions worldwide, we can trace no examples of Staszic’s geological map, let alone the complete text and atlas pairing, as ever having appeared on the market outside Poland; even within Poland the work is considered a great rarity. The Staszic map is one of the first petroleum maps, identifying the locations of rock types containing hydrocarbons in a region that subsequently played a central role in the early development of the global oil industry. In the region of Galicia, numerous numbers referencing the locations of various deposits and rocks related to petroleum within the ‘Montagnes Antemarines’ zone. These include: 94. ‘Bitumes’ [Bitumens]; 95. ‘Schistes bitiminieaux’ [Bituminous Schists]; 96. ‘Charbon de terre’ [Soil Carbon]; 97. ‘Blende charbonneuse’ [Carbonic Compounds]; and 98. ‘Concentrations bitimineuses ou bitume durée’ [Bituminous Concentrations or Hard Bitumen]. This data correctly identifies the locations of the natural field occurrences of hydrocarbons such as oil seeps and gas leakages in the Carpathian Mountains. The part of Galicia identified by Staszic as being home to petroleum-related rock types subsequently became one of the World’s first ‘oil boom’ regions. In 1852, Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822 – 1882) developed oil ‘mines’ in the region. Importantly, in 1856, he founded the world’s first oil refinery at Jasło, Galicia.
Pub List No:
13273.000
Pub Type:
Separate Map
Pub Maps:
5
Pub Height cm:
48
Pub Width cm:
66
Image No:
13273001.jp2
Authors:
Staszic, Stanisław, 1755-1826; Hoffmann
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