Bure, Anders
Anders Bure (August 14, 1571 - February 4, 1646) was a Swedish mathematician and cartographer. He is considered the father of Swedish cartography. He was the son of the parish priest Engelbertus Laurentii and Elisabeth Andersdotter Burea, descendant of the long-established Bureätten family. His immediate family included diplomats and government officials. His education is obscure, though he is mentioned as an office clerk in 1602. His duties in the following years involved recording royal genealogical and historical works, involving him in the highest echelons of Swedish society. He also participated in diplomatic assignments, including missions to both Russia and Finland. His cartographic contributions improved the mapping both of the northern parts of Sweden, and the kingdom as a whole. His six-sheet 1626 Orbis Arctoi represented the first real improvement to the mapping of the northern parts of Europe since the Olaus Magnus map of the previous century: this map would provide the basis for virtually every European map of Scandinavia to follow in the 17th century. In addition to these achievements, he was the first person recorded to use the decimal system in Sweden.
Scandinavia during the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648).
Suecia, Dania, et Norvegia Regna Europae Septentrionalia, iuxta Archetypum Andreae Burei de Boo, Secretarii Regij, et supremi Regni Sueciae Architecti.
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This is a 1635 edition of Willem Blaeu's map of Scandinavia at the height of the Thirty Years' War. It is based on Anders Bure's 1626 mapping of the region, which swiftly became the dominant mapping of the northern parts of Europe and was not replaced as an authority for more than a century. On the strength of his seminal map and its long tenure as the state-of-the-art map of the northern regions of Europe, Bure is hailed as the Father of Swedish Cartography. The scope of the map includes Denmark, Norway, the greater Swedish Empire, the Baltic coasts of Germany, Poland and Livonia, and the Russian Empire. (more details)
Estonia and Latvia as the Swedish Frontier
Nova Totius Livoniae accurata Descriptio. Apud Janssonio Waesbergios et Mosem Pitt.
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A beautifully engraved map of Livonia and the Duchy of Estonia - encompassing much of modern Latvia and Estonia - originally published in Jan Jansson's Atlas and revised for inclusion in Moses Pitt's rare 1680 English Atlas. Derived from Anders Bure's seminal map of the Swedish Empire, it depicts the region during Swedish rule following Sweden's victories over the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Sweden retained Estonia and Livonia until its defeat by Russia in the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721). (more details)
Miniature map of the Classical Sicily.
Siciliae Antiquae Tabula.
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This is a finely-engraved miniature map of Sicily and its adjacent islands, printed in a 1661 Elzevir edition of Philipp Clüver's Introductionis in Universam Geographiam. As is implied in the title, the map shows the Sicily of antiquity, derived from classical sources, including Pliny, Strabo, and Julius Caesar. It therefore depicts the Sicily known to Ancient Rome. Thus Mount Aetna includes the Temple of Vulcan: and the Fretum Siculum (the strait separating Sicily and the Italian Peninsula) is marked with the locations of Scylla and Carybdis, the dual navigational menaces featured in Homer's Odyssey. Forests and mountains are indicated pictorially. (more details)
Miniature map of the British Isles under the Roman Empire.
Britannicarum Insularum Typus.
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This is a finely-engraved miniature map of the British Isles, printed in a 1661 Elzevir edition of Philipp Clüver's Introductionis in Universam Geographiam. This westward-oriented map follows the model of Abraham Ortelius' 1595 map of the same title. As with the Ortelius, this map presents modern geographical information (the outline follows that of Mercator's 1564 and Saxton's 1579 maps) but employs toponomy derived from classical sources, including Pliny, Strabo, and Julius Caesar. It therefore depicts the Britain known to Ancient Rome - Britannia - divided into its Imperial provinces. Celtic tribal names are given as well. The Roman walls built by Hadrian and Antoninus Pius are shown, and historical details, such as Caesar's landing site in his 55 BCE invasion are marked as well. Forests and mountains are indicated pictorially. (more details)
Beautifully executed map of the Russian Frontier with Sweden.
Russiae, vulgo Moscovia dictae, Para Occidentalis. Auctore Isaaco Massa.
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This is a handsome, first edition example of Blaeu's 1662 map covering from Moscow to Estonia, and part of Lithuania, including the frontier with the Swedish Empire. This is among the rarest Blaeu atlas maps of Russia, being one of those first appearing in Joan Blaeu's 1662 Atlas Maior. The map would only appear in the five editions of that atlas before the Blaeu warehouse burned in 1672. (more details)
Sweden at the Height of Empire.
Tabula Regnorum Sueciae et Norvegiae.
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This is Frederick de Wit's map of Scandinavia. It is based on Anders Bure's 1626 mapping of the region, which swiftly became the dominant mapping of the northern parts of Europe and was not replaced as an authority for more than a century. On the strength of his seminal map and its long tenure as the state-of-the-art map of the northern regions of Europe, Bure is hailed as the Father of Swedish Cartography. The scope of the map includes Denmark, Norway, the greater Swedish Empire, the Baltic coasts of Germany, Poland and Livonia, and the Russian Empire - including 'Lapponia Moscovitica,' the portions of Lapland occupied by Russia. (more details)
The Swedish Empire, Crumbling.
Regni Sueciae in omnes suas Subjacentes Provincias accurate divisi Tabula Generalis edita à Ioh. Bapt. Homanno Noribergae.
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This is a richly colored example of Johan Baptist Homann's c. 1716 map of the Kingdom of Sweden, which brought what was the dominant mapping of Sweden and its neighbors up-to-date with the events of the Great Northern War. Homann started - almost certainly - with Frederic de Wit's 1680 Regni Sueciae but added detail and place names that did not exist prior to the 1700–1721 Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia, and particularly before the 1703 capture of the island of Kotlin by Russia from Sweden, the 1703 Russian capture of Nyenskans, and the foundation of the city of St. Petersburg. The city of Oresca, also known as Oreshek, was captured by Russia in 1702 and renamed Schlüsselburg by Peter the Great during his administrative reforms. Here it retained its earlier name. (more details)
In the Wake of the Age of Greatness.
Scandinavia complectens Sueciae, Daniae et Norvegiae Regna ex tabula Joh Bapistae Homanni Norimbergae Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Maj.
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This is Johann Baptist Homann's map of Scandinavia, bringing the dominant 17th-century mapping of the northern parts of Europe up-to-date with the events of the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721). The map is based primarily on Anders Bure's 1626 mapping of the region - the authority for more than a century. The political borders reflect the state of affairs following the disastrous Great Northern War with Russia. (more details)