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797

JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert. La Scandinavie, et les environs ou sont les Royaumes de Suede, de Danemarck, et de Norwege. Paris, c.1708. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 585 x 885mm. A large and decorative map from  Jaillot's 'Atlas Nouveau', with fine baroque title and scale cartouches. It is based on Sanson's map, which Jaillot had redrawn on a larger scale at the request of Sanson's heirs.

SOLD

798

[The scarce large scale edition by Zatta] ZATTA, Antonio. Teatro Della Guerra Nel Nord Tra La Russia, Svezia E Danimarca. Venice, 1789, original outline colour, 670 x 500mm. Excellent condition. A large map of Scandinavia with the title contained within a martial cartouche. The war this map refers to was waged from 1788-1790 between Russia and Sweden which ended in a Swedish victory at the battle of Svensksund.

£690

799

[Early Woodblock of Scandinavia] MAGNUS, Olaus. Scandianae Insulae Index . Rome, c. 1555, woodcut, 260 x 170mm. This woodcut is from Magnus's  "Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus', a history of the peoples of Scandinavia. Magnus, a Catholic churchman in Uppsala, went into exile in Italy during the upheavals of the Swedish Reformation . As a prominent churchman he was buried in St Peter's, Rome.

£2,500

800

[Rare Chart of Sweden] STRÖMCRONA, Nils. ... Pass-Charta öswer Östersiön... Karlskrona, 1737. 535 x 630mm. Upper centrefold reinforced A finely engraved chart of central Sweden, engraved by Carl Bergquist, marking Frederikstad (in Norway) and Göteborg on the west coast, and Stockholm and northern Gotland in the east. The interior is filled with a large dedication cartouche with a portrait of Friedrich I of Sweden. Strömcrona, 1664 - 1740, produced important charts of Sweden and the Baltic, used later by Frenchman Claret de Fleurieu and Russian Alexei Nagayev..

£1,500

801

[Northern Europe] ORTELIUS, Abraham. Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip. Antwerp, 1612, Spanish edition. Original colour. 360 x 495mm. Repairs to centrefold and lower margin. Northern Europe after Olaus Magnus and Zeno, showing Britain and Scandinavia in detail, but also showing Greenland, part of North America and the mythical islands of Frisland, Brasil & St.Brendan, with 'Drogeo' believed to represent Newfoundland. VAN DEN BROECKE: 160, last state of four; BURDEN: 40.

£1,800

802

[Early Hydrographical Chart] KIRCHER, Athanasius. Descriptio Vorticis Norwegiæ et Bothniæ eorumq3 mirabilium effectuum, quos in fluxu et refluxu operantur. Amsterdam, c.1665. 195 x 195mm, set in text. A chart of the sea currents around Scandinavia, published in the 'Mundi Subterranei'. Kircher depicts two subterranean channels linking the Gulf of Bothnia with both the Atlantic and the White Sea. Kircher, a Jesuit scholar, was one of the first compilers of knowledge of the physical features of the world. According to Tooley he was the first to depict the ocean currents. TOOLEY: Dictionary p.357.

£150

803

JANSSON, Jan. Sveciæ, Norwegiæ, et Daniæ, Nova Tabula. Amsterdam, Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text edition. Original colour. 470 x 550mm. A few marginal repairs. A decorative map, with large cartouches for the title and scale, both in bright colour. This example was published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, published two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen. KOEMAN: Me 184 & 185.

£750

804

JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert. La Scandinavie... Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, c.1705. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 585 x 885mm. A large and decorative map from Mortier's issue of Jaillot's 'Atlas Nouveau', with fine baroque title and scale cartouches. It is based on Sanson's map, which Jaillot had redrawn on a larger scale at the request of Sanson's heirs. KOEMAN: Mor 1.

£750

805

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806

[Denmark] SPEED, John. The Kingdome of Denmarke... London, George Humble, 1626. Coloured. 390 x 500mm. Denmark, from Speed's 'Prospect of the... World', with ten costume vignettes down the sides and six city prospects, including Copenhagen & Hamburg (as Holstein was still subject to Denmark at the time), along the top.

£950

807

[Denmark] JANSSON, Jan. Regni Daniæ Accuratissima delineatio. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 460 x 565mm. A large and colourful map of Denmark, with decorative cartouches for the title, scale and deciation, and a large armorial. Published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, published two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen. KOEMAN: Me 184 & 185.

£600

808

[Denmark] JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert. Le Royaume de Danemark... Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, c.1700. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 590 x 890mm. Laid on linen, as issued. A fine, large and decorative map of Denmark, from Mortier's issue of Jaillot's 'Atlas Nouveau', with fine baroque title and scale cartouches. It is based on Sanson's map, which Jaillot had redrawn on a larger scale at the request of Sanson's heirs.

£450

809

[Seige of Copenhagen] Anonymous. Assalto Notturno Dato Dal Re Carlo Gustavo di Svetia alla Citta Reale di coppenhagen La Notte di XI Febraro MDCLVIII.. Italian, c.1660. Two sheets conjoined, overall size 300 x 670mm. Small marginal tear repaired. Prospect of the night assault by Carl Gustav of Sweden on Copenhagen in February 1658, with a heavy bombardment. In the foreground are the invading troops and cavalry crossing the frozen river to reach the city. Underneath the prospect is a 26-point key.

£450

810

[Denmark] CLUVER, Philip. Regni Daniæ Accuratissima delineatio. Amsterdam, c.1730. Coloured. 210 x 255mm. Map of ancient Denmark, with a decorative title cartouche.

£125

811

[Denmark] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria. Il Regno di Danimarca con il Ducato di Sleswik Delineato sulle Ultime Osservazioni. Rome, 1796. Coloured. 490 x 355mm. Uncommon map of Denmark with a decorative title cartouche. Cassini's atlas, the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale', was not a financial success, making the maps uncommon.

£240

812

TALLIS, John. Denmark. London, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, printed area 345 x 255mm. Narrow margins, as issued. Ink pagination in margins. Detailed map, with decorative vignettes showing a view of Copenhagen and local scenes.

£75

813

[Whaling at Spitzbergen] PURCHASE, Samuel. ["Greenland" & "Edges Island".] London, Henry Featherstone, 1625, coloured, 295 x 335mm. Some marginal paper restoration, else a vey fine example. Despite having "Greenland" written across one island this is a map of Spitzbergen, flanked by eleven scenes of whale fishing & processing, and bear and walrus hunting (here called 'seamorces').  Published in 'Purchas His Pilgrimies', it was designed to illustrate the accounts of the whaling voyages of the Muscovy Company from 1611, including those by Thomas Edge (still remembered in the name of one of the islands, Edges Iland), William Baffin and Robert Fotherby. Purchas is not confusing it with the modern Greenland: early English mariners used the same name for the island called Spitzbergen by the Dutch, despite Fotherby writing that there is nowhere "yet knowne and discovered that is lesse greene than it".The discovery of Spitzbergen was the beginning of English whaling. In 1612 the Moscovy Company obtained a charter supposedly giving them exclusive rights to exploiting the islands; in 1613 a fleet of seven ships under Benjamin Joseph and Edge arrived to find 17 foreign ships, which they either bullied into leaving or forced to hand over half their catch. By 1625 competition from the Dutch made Spitzbergen less attractive to the English, so the whalers turned west to the real Greenland.

£1,250

814

[Large Format Chart Of Iceland] KEULEN, Gerard van. 'Het Eyland Ysland in't Groot. Amsterdam: Gerard van Keulen, [1728 onwards]; 530 x 620mm. Remargined at the sides, as often. One of a series of large format charts added by Gerard van Keulen to the 'Zee-Fakkel' in 1728, and re-issued thereafter; for a chart it has an uncharacteristic amount of inland information, with Mount Hekla prominent.

£1,400

815

[Iceland] CLOPPENBURG, Johannes. Islandia. Amsterdam, 1630, French text edition. First Edition. 190 x 260mm. Fine impression. A reduction of the Hondius map of Iceland, probably engraved by Van den Keere, and published in Cloppenburg's version of the Mercator 'Atlas Minor', KOEMAN: Me 198.

£300

816

[An Uncommon Map of Iceland] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria. La Francia Delineato Sulle ultime osservazioni. Rome, 1794. Coloured. Two sheets, each c.355 x 485mm. Map of Iceland with a decorative title cartouche of angling. Published in Cassini's 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale', which was not a success, so his maps are uncommon.

£450

817

[Stavanger] BLAEU, Johannes. Diœcesis Stavangriensis, & partes aliquot vicinæ, operá L.Scavenii, S.S. Amsterdam, c.1640, Latin text edition. Original colour. 415 x 500mm. Southern Norway, marking Stavanger & Oslo.

£650

818

[Norway Chart] DE WIT, Frederick. Norvegiæ Maritimæ ab Elf-burgo ad Dronten. Pascaert van Noorwegen streckende van Elf-burg tot Dronten. Amsterdam, c.1688. Coloured. 495 x 570mm. A few tiny pinholes. Highly decorative chart of Norway, orientated with north to the left. Published in the 'Orbis Maritimus ofte Zee Atlas', with a highly decorative title cartouche in full colour. KOEMAN: Wit 16.

£650

819

[Sweden] HOMANN, Johann Baptist. Regni Sueciae... Nuremberg, c.1720. Original colour. 490 x 570mm. A very good example. A map of  Scandinavia in superb original colour , showing Sweden, parts of Norway, Finland, Latvia and Estonia. The title cartouche flanked by classical figures representing Sweden's military truimphs.

£460

820

[Gothia] JANSSON, Jan. Gothia. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 490 x 490mm. Southern Sweden, marking Stockholm, with a very decorative martial title cartouche. Published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, published two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen. KOEMAN: Me 184 & 185.

£400

821

[Stockholm Panorama] BILLMARK, C.J. Panorama de Stockholm, Pris de la Coupole de L'Eglise de Skeppsholmen (Ile de l'Amirauté), Dessiné d'Après Nature et Lithographié par C.J.Billmark. (Nouvelle edition entierement refaite.) Stockholm: J.C.Hedbom, c.1850. Printed boards, with 16pp. description of Stockholm by Felix Droinet, with a lithographed panorama on five sheets conjoined, total 280 x 2140mm. Some spotting. Carl Johan Billmark (1804-1870) was a Swedish painter and lithographer best known for his book of views along the Trollhätten canal (designed by the British engineer Thomas Telford), published 1843. On the back board is a plan of Stockholm.

£1,200

822

[Prospects and Approaches to Stockholm] HOMANN, Johann Baptist. Accurate Carte der Uplandischen Scheren mit der Situation und Gegend umb die Konigle Schwedische Haupt und Residentz Stadt Stockholm. Nuremberg, c.1720. Original colour with later additions . 490 x 580mm.Minor restorations, printed on thick paper Map of the vicinity of Stockholm at top; below are two panoramic views.

£850