Scandinavia & Baltic from

Nuremberg, c. 1730. Copper engraving, 48.5 x 58.s cm, bright original hand-colour with black and white cartouche as issued, upper right hand corner of upper margin skilfully extended, blank verso. Modern Latvia and Estonia, with parts of Lithuania. The warlike putti of the cartouche emphasise the contested nature of the region, especially during the early phases of the Great… Read more about this item

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1836. Steel engraving, 33.5 x 40.5 cms, engraved by Benjamin Rees Davies after William Barnard Clarke, original hand colour, view of Stockholm on a scroll bottom left, cut close, as usual with this map (narrow upper margin, very edge of vignette cropped bottom left), short closed tear, top right, blank verso. The Society for the… Read more about this item

London, 1837. Steel engraving, 33.5 x 38.5 cm, engraved by Josiah Henshall after William Barnard Clarke, original hand colour, black and white panoramic view of the city at the foot, blank verso. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of making 'useful' information available to self-taught members of the working… Read more about this item

Nuremberg, 1776. Copper engraving, 50.5 x 57.5 cm, original hand colour, one or two marginal nicks and tears, blank verso. Map of Scandinavia prepared for the Homann firm by August Gottlob Boehme (1719-1797). The founder of the Homann business, Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724), was a self-taught copper engraver who founded the leading German cartographic publishing house of the eighteenth-century.… Read more about this item

London, Samuel Augustus Oddy, 1811. Copper engraving, 25.5 x 30 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso; published in‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. Poland, coloured according to the third partition of 1795, by which the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was divided between Prussia, Austria and Russia. James Wallis (fl. 1810-1825) was born in Southampton in 1784, the son of a bricklayer.… Read more about this item

London, 1846. Copper engraving, 73.5 x 53 cm, original hand colour, blank verso; from Wyld's New General Atlas. James Wyld senior established a highly successful firm of map publishers, which passed to his son when he died relatively young in 1836, apparently from 'overwork'. He introduced the new process of lithography to map printing, was a founder member of… Read more about this item

Basel: Officina Henricpetrina,, 1578. Woodcut, 10 x 15.8 cms, modern hand-colour, set within descriptive German text, sheet size 32.5 x 19.5 cms. A view of the Latvian capital Riga, from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia. A compendium of topographical information, folklore and travels, it was first published with a modest 26 maps in 1544, mostly borrowed from his Ptolemy of 1540.… Read more about this item

Basel: Officina Henricpetrina,, 1578. Woodcut, 10 x 13.5 cms, modern hand-colour, set within descriptive German text, some spotting, sheet size 32.5 x 19.5 cms. Scandinavia, from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia. A compendium of topographical information, folklore and travels, it was first published with a modest 26 maps in 1544, mostly borrowed from his Ptolemy of 1540. A substantial enlargement took… Read more about this item

London, 1846. Copper engraving, 74 x 52 cms, original hand colour, blank verso; from Wyld's New General Atlas. James Wyld senior established a highly successful firm of map publishers, which passed to his son when he died relatively young in 1836, apparently from 'overwork'. He introduced the new process of lithography to map printing, was a founder member of… Read more about this item

London, 1799. Copper engraving, 45 x 36 cms, original hand colour, slight offsetting, blank verso; engraved by Samuel John Neele for the atlas volume to ‘Cruttwell’s Gazeteer’, published by G. and J.J. Robinson. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10 cms, black and white, blank verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Probably Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway 1670-1699. Map

London, 1876. Lithographed map, 45 x 57 cms, original colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, blank verso; from the ‘Royal Atlas of Modern Geography’. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

London, c. 1851. Steel engraving, 25.5 x 34 cms, original outline colour, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’; vignettes including Kronstadt and St Petersburg engraved by Henry Winkles. Map

London, 1876. Lithographed map, 45 x 57 cms, inset of St Petersburg, original colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, blank verso; from the ‘Royal Atlas of Modern Geography’. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10 cms, black and white, blank verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Presumably a depiction of Charles XI. Map

Paris, 1806. Copper engraving, 20.5 x 22.5 cms, original outline hand-colour, minor spotting, blank verso. Map

Paris, c. 1690. Copper engraving, 51.5 x 61 cms, original hand-colour, lower margin renewed, blank verso. Map