Click on Thumbnails for Images Antique Maps, rare maps, valuable maps, old maps Europe Index Europe France Germany Monaco Switzerland Benelux Countries Belgium Holland Luxembourg Scandinavia Denmark Finland Iceland Norway Sweden Baltic States Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Central Europe Austria Bohemia/ Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia Eastern Europe Belarus Bulgaria Moldova Romania Russia Ukraine Balkan States Albania Bosnia Croatia Macedonia Serbia Slovenia Southern Europe Cyprus Gibraltar Greece Italy Malta & Gozo Mediterranean Spain & Portugal . Antique Maps of Scandinavia [Map of Scandinavia] Matthaus Merian. Tabula exactissima Regnaru Sueciæ et Norwegiæ nec non Maris Universi Orientalis... Frankfurt, 1646. 295 x 370mm. Coloured. Decorative map of Scandinavia, with a large title cartouche. MERI0012 £425   [Scandinavia] Heinrich Scherer. Svecia Norwgiæ Russia Moscovitica 1699. Munich, c.1700. 235 x 350mm. Map of northern Europe, with Scandinavia, Iceland, the British Isles and Russia. SCHE3005 £195   [Attractive English map of Scandinavia] Frederick de Wit. Scandinavia and its confines in which are the Kingdom's of Sweden, Norway &c. Divided into their Principall Provinces. London, John Senex, 1719-21. 495 x 570mm. Original colour. An uncommon edition of De Wit's map of Scandinavia, 'revised by I.Senex' for inclusion in his atlas of 1721, re-engraved by John Harris. These revisions appear to be just the title, scale and the names of the seas, translated into English. SENE0002 £680   [Map of Sweden, Norway & Finland] Didier Robert de Vaugondy. Royaumes de Suede et deNorwege. Paris, 1748. 175 x 210mm. Original colour. Robert de Vaugondy's smaller format map of northern Scandinavia. ROBE0046 £98   [Map of Scandinavia] Homann Heirs. Scandinavia complectens Sueciæ, Daniæ & Norwegiæ Regna. Nuremberg, 1776. 495 x 565mm. Original colour with later additions. HOMA1019 £450   [Scandinavia] John Pinkerton. Scandinavia. London, Cadell & Davies, 1809. 750 x 550mm. Original body colour. Crack in lower platemark. Large and detailed map of Scandinavia, with strong original colour. PINK0009 £125   [Map of Sweden & Norway] John Arrowsmith. Sweden & Norway. London, 1842. 620 x 520mm. Original colour. Centrefold reinforced with archival tissue on map surface, Detailed map, issued in the 'London Atlas' by the foremost British cartographer of his generation. ARRO0013 £125   [Detailed map of Sweden & Norway] John Tallis. Sweden & Norway London, J. & F. Tallis, c.1851. Steel-engraving. 350 x 255mm. Original colour. With inset vignettes including views of Stockholm and skiing. TALL0044 £125   [Detailed map of Sweden & Norway] C.F. Weiland. Schweden und Norwegen. Weimar, 1853. Steel engraving, 630 x 465mm. Original colour. Small marginal tear not affecting map WEIL0001 £98   [Scandinavia] A.K. Johnston. Sweden, Norway. Edinburgh, c.1855. Steel engraving, 620 x 510mm. Original colour. Detailed map of Scandinavia JOHN0005 £35   [Colourful map of Sweden & Norway] George Philip Sweden & Norway. Liverpool, 1856. Steel engraving, 610 x 510mm. Original colour. Large and detailed map. PHIL0014 £75   [Two maps of Denmark] Abraham Ortelius. Daniae Regni Typus; Cimbricae Chersonesi nunc Jutiae descriptio, Auctore Marco Jordano. Antwerp, 1601. 345 x 490. Coloured. Two maps one one sheet. On the left is Denmark by Cornelis Antoniszoon, which includes Schlewig & Holstein; on the right is Jutland based in Mark Jorden's map of Denmark (also used by Braun & Hogenberg). Koeman: Ort 33; van den Broecke: 87. ORTE0034 £575   [Decorative map of Denmark] Gerard Mercator Daniae Regnu. Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, 1633. 380 x 445mm. Coloured. Decorative map of Denmark by Gerard Mercator himself., with an ornate strapwork title cartouche. MERC0042 £450   [Danish Costume] Alain Manesson Mallet. Dannois. Frankfurt, 1686. 145 x 115mm. Coloured. A Dane and his wife, from a German edition of Mallet's 'Description de l'Univers'. MALL0079 £35   [Denmark with Sleswig-Holstein] Tobias Conrad Lotter. Daniæ Regnum... Augsburg, c.1770. 500 x 585mm. Original body colour. Discreet printer's crease at the centrefold. Denmark map, with Sleswig-Holstein and the southern reaches of Sweden. LOTT0005 £250   [Colourful map of Denmark] John Thomson. Denmark. Edinburgh, c.1814. 530 x 620mm. Original colour. Denmark, including Schleswig & Holstein, with insets of the Faroes and Iceland. THOM0025 £75   [Cary Denmark] John Cary. A New Map of the Kingdom of Denmark, comprehending North and South Jutland, Zeeland, Fyen, Laaland, and Part of Holstein. London, 1819. 500 x 550mm. Original colour. Splits in centrefold repaired. A detailed map, in fine colour. CARY0014 £98   [Map of Denmark] John Arrowsmith. Denmark. London, 1842. 535 x 645mm. Original colour. Centrefold reinforced. Detailed map of Denmark, issued in the 'London Atlas' by the foremost British cartographer of his generation. Schleswig & Holstein are still part of the country. ARRO0012 £95   [Map of Denmark] William Lizars. Denmark. Edinburgh, c.1850. 510 x 410mm. Original colour. Detailed map, still with Sleswig, Holstein & Lauenburg. LIZA0002 £75   [Map of Denmark] James Wyld. Map of the Kingdom of Denmark Including the Dutchies of Holstein & Lauenburg. London, c.1872. 740 x 530mm. A large and colourful map. WYLD0011 £95   [Early townplan of Copenhagen] Braun & Hogenberg. Hafnia. Kobenhagen. Cologne, c.1588. 370 x 420mm. Coloured. Two prospects of Copenhagen, from land and sea, published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed townplans. Drawn by Heinrich von Ratzau and dated 1587, the year before Christian IV came to the throne and undertook an extensive rebuilding programme. The upper prospect looks from the road to Roskilde to the west of the city and the lower from the Amager side. Prominent are the Vor Frue Kirke, the Petri Kirke, the St.Nikolaj Kirke and the old castle on Slotholmen built in 1043. BRAU0079 £1,200   [Copenhagen] Pieter Schenk. Koppenhaven...Hafnia, Daniae regia, in Zelandia insula sita. Amsterdam, c.1702. 220 x 265mm. Coloured. Prospect of Copenhagen with a group of riders filling the foreground. Published in Schenk's 'Hecatompolis sive Totius Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centrum'. SCHE1001 £250   [Copenhagen] John Luffman. Copenhagen. London, Luffman, 1804. 135 x 170mm. Original body colour. An uncommon map of Copenhagen, with an extensive key. An uncommon map of Copenhagen, with an extensive key. Published during the Napoleonic War, in which the British bombarded the city twice (1801 & 1807). The colour is particularly fine.The colour is particularly fine. LUFF0002 £90   [Copenhagen] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Copenhagen. London: Charles Knight, c.1840, Steel engraving, printed area 335 x 395mm. Detailed map of Copenhagen , with a prospect of the city underneath. SDUK0011 £56   [Miniature Map of Greenland and Svalbard] Alain Manesson Mallet. Decouverte de la Groenlande. Paris, c.1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured. The map suggests that Greenland is connected to Spitzbergen. MALL0025 £125   [Early representation of Inuit of Greenland] Alain Manesson Mallet. Groenlandois. Paris, c.1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured. An Inuit couple and child, wrapped in furs. Underneath is a scene of a Inuk in a kayak about to spear a seal. MALL0088 £49   [Greenland Inuit] Middleton. Habits of the Groenlanders. London, c.1780. 285 x 170mm. The Inuit of Greeland, within a decorative engraved boder, published in 'Middleton's Complete System of Geography'. MIDD0002 £89   [Greenland] Reilly, Franz von. Gröenland so weit es bekantist mid den Inseln Færöer. Vienna, c.1789. 250 x 300. Coloured. Greenland map, with the mythical bisecting channel, with an inset of the Faroe Islands. REIL0003 £175   [A Greenland Canoe.] Brown. Canoes used by the Groenlanders. n.d., c.1800. Engraving, 150 x 210mm. A large canoe, engrave by Brown. BROW0001 £69   [Map of Jutland in Denmark] Johannes Jansson. Jutia Australis, in quae Dioeceses Pipensis et Arhusiensis. Amsterdam, Jansson van Waesburg & Moses Pitt, c.1680. 450 x 530mm. Bright original colour. Southern Jutland, decorated a fine title cartouche. This example comes from an uncommon collaboration between Jansson's Dutch successors and Pitt, a London publisher. JANS0028 £240   [Map of Jutland in Denmark] Frederick de Wit. Jutiæ Tabula... Amsterdam, c.1690. 590 x 485mm. Original colour. Northern Denmark, with fine title and scale cartouches and scale cartouches in full colour. DEWI0002 £250   [Unusual Finland] Johan Georg Schreiber. Des Gros-Hertzogthum Finland... Leipsig, c.1720. 200 x 265mm. Original colour. Decorative map of Finland. SCHR1002 £240   [Map of the Gulf of Finland] Homann Heirs. Sinus Finnici Delineatio Geographica... Nuremberg, 1751. 485 x 820mm. Original outline colour with later additions.. The Gulf of Finland, designed to show the approaches to St Petersburg, Tsar Peter the Great's all-year port, Russia's first. HOMA1009 £750   [Miniature map of Iceland] Abraham Ortelius. Islandia. Antwerp, 1602, French text edition. 85 x 120mm. Coloured. Miniature map of Iceland, published in Michel Coigent's 'L'Epitome du Theatre de L'Univers d'Abraham Ortelius'. ORTM0013 £225   [Highly decorative map of Iceland] Gerard Mercator Islandia. Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1609. 285 x 440mm. Coloured. A striking depiction of Iceland, with a typical strapwork title cartouche, a compass on the scale and a twin-spouted sea-monster. Inland the volcano Heckla is shown erupting.. MERC0034 £875   [Map of Iceland] Vicenzo Mario Coronelli. [Iceland.] Venice, 1692. 235 x 310mm. Coloured. Narrow margin at top and right, a few small repairs. Iceland, by the Official Cartographer of the Republic of Venice. CORO0006 £225   [Map of Iceland with fine colour] Johannes Jansson. Novissima Islandiæ Tabula. Amsterdam, Schenk & Valk, c.1700. 380 x 490mm. Original body colour. Minor split in lower centrefold margin repaired. An uncommon issue of Jansson's map of Iceland, first issued 1630. After Jansson's death in 1664 the plate came into the possession of his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen, who republished it in collaboration with the Englishman Moses Pitt and Stephen Swart in the 1680s, with new cartouches for the title and scale. In 1694 the plate was acquired by Schenk and Valk who issued it again, as this example. The colour is particularly fine. JANS0025 £680   [Iceland] Antonio Zatta. L'Isola d'Islandia... Venice, 1781. 320 x 415mm. Original colour. Iceland map with a title cartouche in full colour. ZATT0028 £295   [Detailed map of Iceland] I.C.M. Reinecke. Island nach Murdochisher Projection... Weimar, 1804. 490 x 550mm. Original outline colour. Map of Iceland, with an inset of the Faroes. Murdoch's Projection makes the width of Iceland strangely compressed. REIN0001 £400   [Geological features of Iceland] W.M. Craig. Mount Heckla with i=one of its Glaciers. The Geyser or Boiling Spring in Iceland. London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1809. Engraving, 250 x 170mm. Some toning of paper. Engraved by Howlett after Craig. CRAI0001 £39   [View of Mount Hekla] Olafsen. Mount Hecla. c.1810. Aquatint. 125 x 190mm. Narrow bottom margin, chipped. The famous volcano on Iceland, apparently with a sea battle in front of it. Illustrating 'Olafsen's Travels'. OLAF0001 £85   [An Icelandic sledge] W.M. Craig. Mode of Travelling over the Snow In Iceland. London: Wilks, 1813. Engraving, 120 x 200mm. Some spotting. Engraved by Howlett after Craig. CLON0001 £45   [Lapland and Scandinavia map] Pieter van der Aa. Scandinavie Septentrionale, ou Couronnes du Nord... Leiden, c.1720. 235 x 305mm. Coloured. Decorative map showing northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia with a decorative title cartouche. AAAA0011 £150   [Norwegian Costume] Alain Manesson Mallet. Norwegiens, Paris, c.1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured. Two Norwegians with reindeer and ships in the background. MALL0087 £68   [Map of Norway with a fine title cartouche] Frederick de Wit. Regni Norvegia Nova Tabula... Amsterdam, c.1690. 605 x 510mm. Original colour with additions. A very colourful map of Norway, with the northern reaches shown in an inset top left. DEWI0006 £950   [Map of Norway with a vignette of mining] Johann Baptist Homann. Tractus Norwegiæ Danicus Magnam Dioceseos Aggerhusiensis... Nuremberg, c.1729. 485 x 575mm. Original wash colour. South-east Norway, with Christiania (Oslo). The vignette filling the height of the plate is of great interest. It is a cross-section of a mountain, cut away to demonstate various mining techniques: a watermill pumps out water, which is panned in a shallow bed; another wheel with a man inside lifts ore to be carted to a furnace to be smelted; and a hand-crank lifts a miner to the surface. HOMA0025 £575   [Norway map with decorative cartouche] Johann Baptist Homann. Regni Norvegiæ Accurata Tabula... Nuremberg, c.1740. 595 x 505mm. Original body colour with later additions. Norway, with a decoative title cartouche featuring mer-people. An inset shows the northern reaches of the country. HOMA0024 £490   [Map of Norway] Antonio Zatta. La Norvegia divisa nelle sue Provincie. Venice, 1781. 420 x 320mm. Original colour. Norway, usually shown with the other Scandinavian countries. ZATT0070 £275   [Uncommon map of Norway] Reilly, Franz von. Des Konigreich Norwegen. Vienna, c.1790. 250 x 300. Original colour. Norway, with the northern part shown as an inset. REIL0014 £175   [Map of Norway & Denmark] Didier Robert de Vaugondy. Norwege; Royaume de Denmarck. Paris, Delamarche, c.1790. 260 x 230mm. Coloured. Robert de Vaugondy's smaller format maps of Norway & Denmark. ROBE0032 £95   [View of the Romsdalshorn, Norway] J.D. Woodward The Romsdalshorn from Aak. London, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1872. Steel engraving. 220 x 290mm. The Romsdalshorn is a popular climbing mountain in Rauma, Norway, first ascended 1828. WOOD1003 £49   [Miniature Map of Svalbard] Alain Manesson Mallet. Decouverte de la Groenlande. Paris, c.1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured. Svalbard and its environs in the Arctic Sea, including the Russian island Novaya Zemlya. An inset shows Spitsbergen, the largest island of Svalbard. MALL0086 £98   [View of a Glacier on Spitsbergen] Moore. Curious prospect of an Iceberg in the Island of Spitsbergen. c.1785. 190 x 285mm. A glacier reaching the sea. Published in 'Moore's New & Complete Collection of Voyages & Travels' MOOR0001 £59   [Early decorative map of Spitzbergen (Svalbard)] Johannes Jansson. Spitzberga. Amsterdam, Schenk & Valk, c.1700. 410 x 505mm. Original body colour with later additions. Repairs to verdigris cracking. An uncommon chart of Spitzbergen or Svalbard, first published late in Jansson's career in his Sea Atlas in 1657. In 1694 the plate was acquired by Schenk and Valk who issued it with their names added. Decorated with cartouches for the title and scale, it also has a vignette scene of whaling, the reason that Spitzbergen was important enough to have a map devoted to it. JANS0065 £1,250   [Map of Sweden with Finland and the other Baltic States] Frederick de Wit. Regni Sueciæ Tabula Generalis, divisa in Suceciæ, Gotiæ qu. Regna Finniæ, Ducatum Lapponiam, Livoniam, Nordlandiam Ingriam qu. et in omnes subiacentes provincias... Amsterdam, c.1690. 510 x 585mm. Original colour with additions. A very colourful map of Sweden, with Finland, Estonia, Latvia, etc. DEWI0007 £600   [View of Upsala in Sweden] Pieter Schenk. Upsal, Een Aerts-bischoppelyke Stad in Zweden... Amsterdam, 1702. 215 x 275mm. Original colour. Colourful view of the city, published in Schenk's 'Hecatompolis sive Totius Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centrum'. SCHE1004 £295   [Map of Sweden with Finland] Johann Baptist Homann. Regni Sueciæ... Nuremberg, c.1720. 490 x 575mm. Original colour with later embellishments. Sweden, with Finland, Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania. HOMA0030 £490   [Map of Gothia] Johann Baptist Homann. Nova Tabula Scaniæ, quæ est Gothia Australis... Nuremberg, c.1730. 500 x 585mm. Original colour. With a decorative title cartouche. HOMA0035 £390   [Sea chart of the Baltic] Mount & Page. A Chart of ye Coast of Sweden from Oeland to Stockholm. London, c.1740. 430 x 525mm. Uncommon chart of the Baltic coast of Sweden, orientated with north to the top right. Gotland appears at the bottom of the map. MOUN0001 £325   [Goteborg & the Kattegat] Nicolas Sanson. Gouvernment de Bahus... Paris, Pierre Mariette, 1668. 405 x 450mm. Coloured. Map of the Swedish coast of the Kattegat. SANS0006 £325   [Map of Gothia with Stockholm] Henricus Hondius. Gothia. Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1641. 400 x 490mm. Original colour. Minor split in lower centrefold margin repaired. Southern Sweden, marking Stockholm and Goteborg, also showing Gothia and Copenhagen. HOND0037 £290   [Unusual map of Gotland] Richard Holmes Laurie. A New Travelling Map of Sweden Proper, Gotland, &c. Exhibiting the Admeasured Distances, On all the Principal and Cross Roads, In Quarters of a Swedish Mile. London, 1823. 625 x 500mm. Old colour? Splits in centrefold margins reinforced. An uncommon map of Gothia. R.H. Laurie's father Robert was the Laurie of the publishers, 'Laurie & Whittle': he took his father's place in the business in 1812 and continued under his own name when Whittle retired in 1818. LAUR2001 £195   [Lapland] Nicolas Sanson. Partie Occidentale de la Lapponie Suedoise. Paris, Pierre Mariette, 1666. 435 x 550mm. Coloured. Narrow top margin. Map of Lapland, now divided between Sweden & Finland. SANS0007 £325   [Prospect of Stockholm.] Guillaume Sanson. Stokholm. Amsterdam, c.1705. 205 x 275mm. Prospect of Stockholm, probably after Sanson. SANS0014 £350   [Map of the Environs of Stockholm] Johannes Blaeu. Ducatus Uplandia. Amsterdam, 1643. 390 x 495mm. Original colour. Split in lower centrefold margin repaired well outside map The environs of Stockholm. BLAE0107 £680   Back to Top Homepage

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