Scandinavia - Denmark
First Atlas Map dedicated to Scandinavia.
Septentrionaliū Regionum Suetiae Gothiae Norvegiae Daniae et terrarium adiacētium recens exactaque description per Livinum algoet Auctorem Gerardus de Jode excudebat.
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This is Gerard De Jode's rare map of Scandinavia, the first folio map specifically focused on the area, in its 1593 edition published by the younger De Jode, Cornelis. It is the fullest realization of the Olaus Magnus Carta marina to appear in an atlas. (more details)
Bestiary of fantastical northern monsters - in a rare superior edition.
Les Monstres Marins, et Terrestres, Lesquelles on Trouve en Beaucoup di Lieux es Parties Septentrionales.
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Euphemistically referred to as Munster's Monsters, this is the rare 1575 Belleforest edition of Münster's bestiary of sea serpents and other astonishing monsters. Bellforest editions are highly desirable for their superior presentation and engraving. The image first appeared in the expanded 1550 editions of Munster's Cosmographia, a work which, for more than half a century, provided the European literate layperson their best source of information about the world. This scarce second block was cut in Paris for inclusion in the 1575 Belleforest edition of Cosmographia. (more details)
Bestiary of fantastical northern monsters.
Mostri marini et terrestri, che si trovano in ogni luogo nelle parti d'aquilone.
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An attractive example of Sebastian Münster's bestiary of sea serpents and other astonishing monsters, some fictional, some real. The image first appeared in the expanded 1550 editions of Munster's Cosmographia, a work which for more than half a century provided the European literate layperson their best source of information about the world. Most of the beasts here are derived from a 1539 map of Scandinavia by Olaus Magnus. As fanciful as these creatures may appear, many depict factual creatures that Scandinavian sailors and whalemen occasionally encountered. Among the more recognizable beasts are various forms of whales with obvious blowholes, at least two enormous lobsters, a sea serpent (possibly an oarfish), the whale fish (white fish at center, an Orca), and something that might very well be a walrus. A pelican (letter R) is recognizably depicted, and it is described on the verso including part of its scientific name (Onocrotalus.) Of course, there are fictional sea monsters too, including a pig faced sea beast, apparently seen by sailors in 1537, and the Sea Buffalo, something that looks like a cross between a bull and a fish. (more details)
First Atlas Map of the North Parts of the World.
Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
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A beautiful example of one of Abraham Ortelius' most interesting maps, his 1570 map of Scandinavia and the Arctic. During the Age of Discovery, the Arctic was as remote and unfamiliar as the coasts of America, Africa, or Asia. This map played a role in propagating several cartographic fallacies, including the Zeno Fraud: Frisland, Estotiland, Drogeo. The present example, in a 1602 Vrients edition, features warm, original color. (more details)
Striking 19th Century Manuscript Map of Stockholm.
Plan von Stockholm.
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This is August Szontagh's remarkable 1842 manuscript map of Stockholm, Sweden. The map captures Stockholm during a period of expansion and civic infrastructure reform. Though likely academic rather than administrative, this plan exhibits the meticulous style we've come to associate with military engineering draftsmanship. (more details)
Early edition of the most accurate map of Scandinavia of its day.
Suecia Et Norvegia cum confinijs.
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An attractive example of Gerard Mercator's 1595 map of Scandinavia, in its first French atlas edition of 1609. Among the maps of the northern parts of Europe produced in the sixteenth century, this is the first to focus narrowly on Scandinavia. Ginsberg, typically laconic in praise, notes that the map 'gave the Scandinavian peninsula its correct form' and 'became the model for nearly all subsequent maps of Scandinavia.' This basic model would stand until supplanted in the mid-17th century by the work of Anders Bure. (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)
Earliest acquirable state of the Zeno map.
Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula.
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This is the most important map of Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 - 1564 edition Ptolemy: the earliest acquirable iteration of Nicoló Zeno's 1558 Carta Da Navegar De Nicolo et Antonio Zeni Furono In Tramontana Lano MCCCLXXX, revealing the alleged 14th-century voyages of Zeno's ancestors, Nicoló and Antonio. Zeno's fraud, likely intended to enhance his political power in Venice and later embraced to co-opt the 1492 Columbia discovery of America, was responsible for the initial appearance and subsequent tenacity of the apocryphal islands Frisland, Icaria, Drogeo, and the coastline of Estotiland, which was taken by some of Europe's finest geographers to be the coast of Labrador. (more details)
A working nautical chart of the Kattegat - the strait between Denmark and Sweden.
Kaart over Kattegattet.
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This is an 1820 Royal Danish Nautical Charts Archive nautical chart or maritime map of the Kattegat, the strait between Denmark and Sweden. This is one of the most actively navigated bodies of water in the world. With Denmark on the left and Sweden on the right, myriad islands appear along Sweden's coastline, and the many islands dotting the strait are illustrated and labeled. Depth soundings and rhumb lines provide navigational aids. Manuscript notes suggest that this chart was used aboard ship. (more details)
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)
Sweden's Age of Greatness.
Carte des Courones du Nord Dediée au tres puissant et tres invincible Prince Charles XII, Roy de Suede, des Gots et des Vandales, Grand Duc de Finlande etc, etc, etc. Par son tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur Guillaume De l'Isle Premier Geogr. du Roy de l'Academ. Rle. des Sciences.
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This is Guillaume de l'Isle's magnificent 1706 two-sheet map of Scandinavia, highlighting the empire of King Charles XII of Sweden. It captures the Kingdom of Sweden during the last reign of its 'Age of Greatness' at the height of the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721). The map further illustrates the degree to which early cartographers struggled to keep pace with evolving political events. The image above is a composite, but the map is in two separate sheets - as apparent in the subsequent photos. (more details)
One of the Earliest Maps of Scandinavia, Greenland and Ultima Thule.
Schonlandia Nuova.
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This is a handsome example of Girolamo Ruscelli's 1561 map of Scandinavia, after Gastaldi. It is among the earliest generally acquirable modern maps of the northern parts of the world, capturing a period when geographers were struggling to integrate new geographical information with heretofore authoritative classical knowledge. Ruscelli's map is an expanded, more clearly-engraved and legible iteration of Gastaldi's 1548 Schonlandia Nova. (more details)
Baltic Sea near Stockholm!
Ostersoens Nordlice Deel.
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This is a rare 1871 blueback chart or nautical map of the northern Baltic Sea, including Stockholm, Sweden. (more details)
Bothnian Bay will be a large freshwater lake...in 2,000 years.
Botten Wiken.
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This is an 1868 Royal Swedish Nautical Chart Archive nautical chart or maritime map of Bothnian Bay or Bottenviken in Swedish. Situated between Sweden and Finland, both the Finnish and Swedish coasts are depicted in impressive detail, with fjords, islands, and rivers illustrated. Lighthouses are marked throughout with profile views of many appearing in the blank inland regions. The Northern Quark (Norra Qvarken) is labeled near the bottom border. (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)
Rare early map of Copenhagen with a beautiful view of the city.
Grundriss von Copenhagen Ao 1727
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This is a scarce early map of the city of Copenhagen, Denmark by Erich Pontoppidan dating to 1727. Beautifully covers the capital city of Denmark within its fortified walls. Streets, and buildings are noted. A key near the right border lists the important locations ... (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)
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)
Airfields during the Allied advance west through Germany.
Airfield Development. Changes Since Nov. 30th 1944.
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This is a February 1945 map of Central Europe detailing Allied airfield development between November 30, 1944, and the beginning of February 1945, during the Allied westward advance during World War II (1939 - 1945). The map is a key record of both the construction of Allied airfields and the appropriation of German fields as Allied-controlled territory expanded throughout the course of the war. (more details)
Reasserting Baltic trade after the Russo-Swedish War.
A New and Correct Chart of the Baltic from the Cattegat to Soderhamn and the entrance of the Gulf of Finland on a Mercator's Projection. Including the harbors of Riga, Carlshamn, Aus and Geffle, with Views of the principal Headlands taken from the best Swedish and Russian Surveys; and Improved by John Hamilton Moore Hydrographer and Chartseller to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.
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This is a 1791 wall-sized John Hamilton Moore nautical chart or map of the Baltic Sea. This chart was issued in the wake of the Russo-Swedish War (1788-1790), which ended the year prior, during a period where regional tensions still ran high. It nonetheless benefits from the cartographic advances of that war and represents a period where regional trade was being reestablished. (more details)
Lighthouses...and more lighthouses!
Botten Hafvet.
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This is an 1868 Royal Swedish Nautical Chart Archive nautical chart or maritime map of the Bothnian Sea, or Bottenhavet in Swedish. The Bothnian Sea is a body of water situated between Sweden and Finland, part of the larger Gulf of Bothnia. Depicting from Gadden south to Lulla, both coastlines are illustrated in detail. Coastal islands are illustrated and labeled. Countless depth soundings, coastal lights, and other navigation aids are highlighted. Many of these lighthouses are illustrated in profile along the Swedish and Finnish coastlines - useful for helping the mariner to recognize them and thus know his location. (more details)
From the final, Spanish edition of the Atlas Maior.
Pars Australior Iutiae Septentrionalis, in qua Dioeceses Ripensis et Arhusiensis.
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This is Joan Blaeu's 1659 map of southern-central Denmark, or the southern part of Jutland. It is among the scarcest of Blaeu's maps, appearing in a sole edition of the Novuus Atlas and subsequently in the Atlas Maior. It shows the Dioceses of Ribe and Aarhus, the Protestant sees administering the southern Jutland Peninsula from as far south as Haderslev and the island of Fionia, as far north as Onsild in the east and Lemvig in the west. The map is superbly detailed and engraved, typical of the younger Blaeu's work at its creative peak. There is a superb cartouche, behind which three cowherds and their bovine charges are trying unsuccessfully to hide. (more details)
Remarkable mining imagery.
Tractus Norvegiae Danicus Magnam Dioeceseos Aggerhusiensis.
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Here is Johann Baptist Homann's 1729 map of the county of Akershus, surrounding Oslo (Christiana), Norway. Aside from its geographic detail, it is distinguished by a large, intricate mining vignette at right - a fascinating insight into 18th-century European mine engineering. (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)
Talking polar bears anyone?
Originalkarte der I. Deutschen Nordpolar-Expedition, 1868.
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This is an 1871 Augustus Petermann map of Svalbard and the Arctic Ocean. The map records the 1868 First German North Polar Expedition, which, to this day, maintains the records for the highest northern latitude reached by a sailing ship without auxiliary drive. (more details)
Earliest Printed Image of Riga.
Riga.
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This is the 1550 / 1572 Sebastian Münster woodcut view of Riga, Latvia - the earliest printed image of that city and one of the only glimpses of the city as it was prior to the great fire that destroyed the city in 1547. It represents the standard view of the city for about a century. (more details)
A Groundbreaking Dutch Map of Norway.
Nova Totius Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae Tab: Auctore Frederick de Wit.
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This beautifully engraved map is Frederick De Wit's c. 1688 map of Norway. Ginsberg's typically coy praise should ring loudly: 'We Wit's map of Norway... attests to his originality and skill. Here is a representation that truly merits being called a map of the country,' that country being Norway. None of this map's precursors focused so well on Norway itself, and with such detail as this. (more details)
Venice Discovers America! Maybe not.
Septenirionalium Partium Nova Tabula.
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This is Girolamo Ruscelli's 1599 edition of the 1558 Carta Da Navegar De Nicolo et Antonio Zeni Furono In Tramontana Lano MCCCLXXX by Nicoló Zeno the Younger, revealing the alleged 14th-century voyages of his ancestors, Nicoló and Antonio Zeno. The fraud, seen largely as an attempt to co-opt the 1492 Columbia discovery of America, is responsible for the tenacious mapping of the apocryphal islands Frisland, Icaria, and Drogeo, and the coastline of Estotiland, which was taken to be the coast of Labrador. (more details)
From the final, Spanish edition of the 'Atlas Maior'.
Lalandia, Falstria et Mona Insulae in Mari Balthico.
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This is Joan Blaeu's 1659 map of the islands of Laaland, Falster, and Møn, the southeastern part of Denmark. It is among the scarcest of Blaeu's maps, appearing in a sole edition of the Novuus Atlas and subsequently only in the Atlas Maior. The map is superbly engraved and colored, with a lovely cartouche and sailing ships: typical of the younger Blaeu's work at its creative peak. (more details)
This expedition established without question that Greenland is an island.
Map Shewing Route of the North Greenland Expedition of 1891-92. R.E.Peary, U.S. Navy.
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This is an 1893 Royal Geographical Society map of northern Greenland depicting the 1891-92 Peary Expedition to confirm the insularity of Greenland. Different patterns are used to trace both Peary’s inbound and outbound routes between McCormick Bay and Independence Bay. Channels, capes, basins, fjords, and other formations are labeled. Two inset maps are situated in the lower right quadrant, with one detailing Independence Bay and the Academy Glacier that marked the end of Peary’s outbound journey, while the other, larger inset details the area immediately surrounding McCormick Bay and Peary’s base of operations for the entire expedition. (more details)
A stunning 18th century map of Denmark.
Royaume de Danemarck, qui comprend le Nort-Jutland divisé en ses quatre Dioceses, le Sud-Jutland divisé en ses deux Duchés de Sleswick et de Holstein, et les Isles de Fionie, Selande, Laland, etc.
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This is a c. 1768 Didier Robert de Vaugondy map of Denmark. Vaugondy's work presents a high degree of accuracy (for the period) since the Atlas Universel in which it was printed was one of the first atlases based upon actual surveys. (more details)
Carte du Royaume de Danemarc.
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This is a beautiful 1710 map of Denmark by Guillaume De L'isle. It covers all of Jutland and the islands of Zealand, Funen and Lolland. Parts of southern Sweden and northern Germany are also included. The map renders the entire region in extraordinary detail ... (more details)