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Tabula Moderna Norbegie et Gottie.
Rare woodblock map of Scandinavia published by Waldseemüller, from the first modern atlas, because the 20 new maps in this atlas show all parts of the world based on con...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, Johann Schott, 1513-1520
Selling price: $6000
Sold in 2020
Gemeine Beschreibung Aller Mitnachtigen Lander Schweden, Gothen, Nordwegien, Dennmarck &c.
One of the earliest woodcut maps of Scandinavia. Shows Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Scotland, Denmark with the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Sebastian Munster's second m...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2019
Sconladia Nova.
Gastaldi's modern map of Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Baltic According to Bill Ginsberg the map was "built upon previous publications, in particular, the representa...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2022
Tabula Europae VIII. (Russia, Ukraine, Baltic, Scandinavia)
Gastaldi's map showing the Baltic in the North and the Black Sea in the south. Based upon Ptolemy.Embellished is a sailing ship, sea monster and several curious animals.I...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2022
Gemeine beschreibung aller Mitnaechtigen Laender, Schweden, Gothen, Nordwegien, Dennmarck, sc.
An early Sebastian Münster's woodcut map of Scandinavia, based on the 'Carta Marina' of Olaus Magnus, 1539. The map includes Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, S...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
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[Lot of 19 leaves of Scandinavia, Greenland, Island]
Nineteen text leaves illustrated with wood block prints and maps relating to Scandinavia, Greenland and Island. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographi...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2022
Gemeine beschreibung aller Mitnaechtigen Laender, Schweden, Gothen, Nordwegien, Dennmarck, sc.
An early Sebastian Münster's woodcut map of Scandinavia, based on the 'Carta Marina' of Olaus Magnus, 1539. The map includes Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, S...
Place & Date: Basel, 1560
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Schonladia Nuova.
Depicting Scandinavia in a trapezoidal projection, being one of the earliest obtainable modern maps of Scandinavia. The map combines Ptolemaic and modern cartographic inf...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
Mörewunder vnd seltzame thier
Spectacular woodcut of mythical land with sea monsters and animals. The monsters were first engraved in the ‘Carta Marina’ of 1539 by Olaus Magnus and have been us...
Place & Date: Basel, 1561
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2022
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[Southern Scandinavia to central Germany, Netherlands and East England]
The rare second state is dated 1562, but still lacks the imprint of Camocio. The map has no title and extends from Southern Scandinavia to Central Germany, The Netherland...
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $21200
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(SCANDINAVIE). Monogr. THW (Thomas Weber) dated 1567.
Rare and important map of Scandinavia from Olaus Magnus' Historia Olai Magni gothi archiepiscop upsalensis, de gentium septentrionalium, published in Basel in 1567.The ma...
Place & Date: Basle, 1567
Selling price: $7000
Sold in 2019
Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
Early second state of this influential map of the Arctic, including Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and part of the North American continent, includes also the legendary ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1571/1573
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2018
Daniae Tabula...
Striking map of Denmark, extending from the Mechlenberg, Pomerania and Prussian Coastlines to the Norwegian Coastline, and extending north to show Stockholm. from the 157...
Place & Date: Antwerp,1572/1574
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Daniae Regni Typus.
Early decorative map of Denmark, extending from the Mechlenberg, Pomerania and Prussian Coastlines to the Norwegian Coastline, and extending north to show Stockholm. Abra...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2017
Gotland oder Gothen.
Map of Scandinavia. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near Mainz ...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2010
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[Map of Scandinavia]
Small Scandanvia woodcut map by Sebastian Münster.
Place & Date: Basel, c. 1580
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2010
Daniae regni typus.
A very decorative, and nicely colored example of Ortelius' map of Denmark, extending from Schleswig Holstein and Mechlenberg, Pomerania and Prussian coasts to the Norwegi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1580
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2020
Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
This influential map of the Arctic, including Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and part of the North American continent, includes also the legendary islands of i.a. Drogeo...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $1950
Sold in 2014
Die zee custe van Noorweghen tusschen der Noess en Mardou. . .
A rare Dutch text edition of this early and detailed chart of the coast of Norway. Decorated by a colorful title cartouche and scale cartouche, one compass rose, several ...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2024
Zhet noterfte ofte Oosterste deel van de Oster Zee, beslooten tegens Rus landt.Lijfflandt, Oost Finlandt . . .
A detailed chart of the coast of Finland. Decorated by a title, scale and descriptive cartouche, a compass rose, several vessels and sea monsters, and depictions of mount...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Selling price: $5000
Sold in 2008
Beschrivingee der zijden op de Belt en Noortzee. . .
A rare Dutch text edition of this early detailed chart of the coast of Jutland and its towns Skagen among others. Decorated by a title and scale cartouche, two compass ro...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2022
De gelegentheijt van Jutlandt, mits gaders de gaeten . . Tot dat Eijlandt Silt.
A detailed chart of the Danish coastline, including Tondern and te island Silt. Decorated by a title, scale and a descriptive cartouche, one compass rose, several vessels...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2022
Cimbricae Chersonese nunc Iutiae descriptio.
A very decorative, old-colored example of Ortelius' map of Jutland, depicting also Fiona, Alsen, and Langeland. The map is based on the work of Marcus Jordanus, a profess...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Selling price: $245
Sold in 2021
De Custen van een deel van Denemarken en Swederyck , beginnede va Uuytlte tot Calmer toe. . .
A decorative uncloured chart displaying the North Sea and the coast of Sweden and Denmark. Several vignettes of sea monsters and a ship. It was published by Dutch cartogr...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1586
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2009
Danorum Marca, uel Cimbricum. aut Daniae Regnum..
The oldest preserved map of Denmark of Danish origin. Drawn by Marcus Jordan at the request of Duke Heinrich Rantzau, viceroy of Schleswig-Holstein. It is a new perceptio...
Place & Date: Cologne 1588
Selling price: $950
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Daniae regni Typus
Miniature map covering Denmark including that part of Sweden that was then controlled by Denmark. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas and a sailing ship.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $100
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Septentrionalium regionum descriptio
Handsome miniature map based on Ortelius' important map of the Arctic regions with the mythical islands of Drogeo and Frieslant. The map is beautifully engraved with stip...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $260
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Gemeine Beschreibung aller Mitnachtigen Lander/ alsz Schweden / Gothen / Norwegien / Dennmark &c
Interesting wood block printed map of Europe, Scandinavia, England, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, The Baltics, Greenland, and America.The map shows two Greenlands, on...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2014
Hafnia vulgo Kopenhagen.
Two fantastic birds-eye views of Copenhagen, one from land and from the seaside showing the harbor. Highly detailed with numerous buildings, windmills, sailing ships, and...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1588
Selling price: $243
Sold in 2015
Danorum Marca, uel Cimbricum. aut Daniae Regnum..
The oldest preserved map of Denmark of Danish origin. Drawn by Marcus Jordan at the request of Duke Heinrich Rantzau, viceroy of Schleswig-Holstein. It is a new perceptio...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2016
Hafnia vulgo Kopenhagen. (Copenhagen)
Two views of Copenhagen, by Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Topographia insulae Hvenae in celebri porthmo regni Daniae, quem vulgo oersunt vocant : effigiata Coloniae 1586 (Hven/Uraniborg - Tycho Brahe)
An antique map showing Uraniborg, which was a Danish astronomical observatory and alchemy laboratory established and operated by Tycho Brahe. It was built c. 15...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2020
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Helsheborch [on sheet with] Lunden [and] Elbogen [and] Landeskron. (Helsingborg, Lund, Malmö, Landskrona)
Four bird's-eye views of Swedish towns by Braun and Hogenberg : Helsingborg, Lund, Malmö and Landskrona.HELSINGBORG with COMMENTARY BY BRAUN (on verso): "Helsingbor...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2020
Freti Danici or Sundt Accuratiss Delineatio.
Bird's-eye view of The Sound with Helsingborg, Landskrona and Elbogen, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. Inset with a view of Kronenborg Castle.Translation of cartouche...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
STOCKHOLM - STOCHOLM.
An old, antique map with two bird's-eye/panoramic views(North and South) of Stockholm, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, after Hieronymus Scholäus. Showing its active ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2021
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Danorum Marca, uel Cimbricum. aut Daniae Regnum. . .[DENMARK]
The oldest preserved map of Denmark of Danish origin. Drawn by Marcus Jordan at the request of Duke Heinrich Rantzau, viceroy of Schleswig-Holstein. It is a new perceptio...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2021
Colding Schloss und Stat.
A bird's eye view of Kolding castle and town from Braun & Hogenberg. The port of Kolding on the Danish Jutland Peninsula is seen in cavalier perspective from the sout...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1589
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2019
Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
Influential map of the Arctic. It includes Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and part of the North American continent, together with the legendary islands of the north: Dro...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1590
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2015
Islandia.
Probably the most famous (and among the most beautiful!) map of Iceland. On the south side an impressive collection of sea monsters. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoe...
Place & Date: Anwerp, ca 1590
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2016
Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
A fascinating and important map of the North Atlantic by A. Ortelius in beautiful original colors.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2016
Bergen.
A spectacular, large, rare view of Bergen, from the famous 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' of Braun & Hogenberg. Bergen was founded in 1070, during the warm medieval perio...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2018
Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
An influential map of the Arctic. It includes Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and part of the North American continent, together with the legendary islands of the north: ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2018
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1591
Selling price: $5900
Sold in 2015
Islandia
From the 1591 German edition of the Theatrum (75 copies printed). Probably the most famous map of Iceland. The lower part of this map features a big collection of sea mon...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1591
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2015
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $5800
Sold in 2009
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $9500
Sold in 2012
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $7300
Sold in 2010
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $9000
Sold in 2011
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $6200
Sold in 2013
Islandia.
One of the most decorative atlas maps of all time published by Abraham Ortelius in his atlas “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”. The map depicts Iceland in truly remarkable de...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $6700
Sold in 2018
Topographia Insulae Huenae in Celebri Porthmo Regni Daniae, quem vulgo Oersunt Vocant.
Shows the Island of Hven, where Tycho Brahe had his observatory, Uraniborg. Latin text on verso. More about Braun and Hogenberg, Civitatus [+]
Place & Date: Cologne, 1593
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2016
Helsheborch - Lunden - Elbogen - Landeskron.
Decorative bird's eye views of the cities Helsingburg, Lunden, Elbogen and Landeskron. Four city views on one sheet. More about Braun and Hogenberg, Civitatus [+]
Place & Date: Cologne, 1593
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Freti Danici or Sundt Accuratiss Delineatio.
Bird's-eye view of The Sound with Helsingborg, Landskrona and Elbogen. Inset with a view of Kronenborg Castle. More about Braun and Hogenberg, Civitatus [+]
Place & Date: Cologne, 1593
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2016
Islandia.
Miniature map Island. From the second series of miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. A new series of pocket-size atlases was begun by Philip Galle in 1588. It seems that...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $210
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ISLANDIA.
Superb miniature map of Iceland. From the second series of the miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. Shows the island with the main towns, mountains, rivers, and islands....
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2009
Daniae Regnu.
An uncolored example of Mercator's first map of Denmark, from the first edition of his Atlas.A decorative map of Denmark by Gerard Mercator himself., with an ornate strap...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1595
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $6100
Sold in 2014
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $6300
Sold in 2015
Hydrographica Septentrionalis Norvegiae partis descriptio. . . / Beschrijvinghe der Zeecusten vant Nordelicxste deel van Norweghen. . .
A detailed chart of the coast of Norway and Lapland. Decorated by a colorful title cartouche and scale cartouche, two compass roses, several vessels and sea monsters, and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.Claesz, 1596
Selling price: $15750
Sold in 2008
Islandia.
A fine, strong impression example of the famous Quad's map of Iceland. It can be considered a reduced version of Ortelius' "Islandia", the first realistic map o...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $1540
Sold in 2019
Oitinense oppidulum et arx Episcopi Lubecensis sedes / Delineatio Civitatis Tonderensis. Tonder - Eutin
Two bird's-eye plans on one sheet: Tønder (Denmark) and Eutin (Germany) by Braun & Hogenberg.From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596 EUTINCAPTION: Eu...
Place & Date: Cologne 1596
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Visbia Gothorum. Visby / Gotland.
A fine antique map - bird's-eye view / plan of Visby on Gotland by Braun and Hogenberg, from: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596.TRANSLATION OF CAPTION: In...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2020
Elsenor / Ripen. Helsingør (Sjaelland) & Ribe (Jutland).
A fine antique engraving with two panoramic views by Braun and Hogenberg on one sheet: Helsingør (Sjaelland) & Ribe (Jutland), from Braun G. & Hogenberg F. Civit...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
![Stocholmia [Stockholm].](/uploads/cache/42581-250x250.jpg)
Stocholmia [Stockholm].
The top engraving, showing the timber houses so typical of Scandinavia, is a view from the northeast across what was then the suburb of Norrmalm and is now the city centr...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588-1597
Selling price: $435
Sold in 2018
Bergen.
The delightful Braun & Hogenberg bird's-eye view of the Norwegian city of Bergen, founded in 1070 and fortified with a palisade, is seen from the southwest across Và...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588-1597
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2018
Gotland
Very fine early miniature map of Gotland, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas, (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on verso.
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2010
Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
This influential map of the Arctic, including Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and part of the North American continent, includes also the legendary islands of i.a. Drogeo...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $1800
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![Daniae Regni Typus . . . / Cimbricae Chersonesi. .. [2 maps].](/uploads/cache/32297-250x250.jpg)
Daniae Regni Typus . . . / Cimbricae Chersonesi. .. [2 maps].
Two maps on one sheet. The left hand is centered on Denmark, with a credit to the cartographer, Cornelis Anthoniszoon (1499-1557) Cornelius Antoniades Descripsit .The rig...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2012
Islandia.
From the rare Dutch text edition of the Theatrum of which according to van den Broecke only 100 copies are printed.Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south si...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $6000
Sold in 2016
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $5800
Sold in 2015
SEPTENTRIONALIUM REGIONUM DESCRIP, 1598
A copperplate full colored decorative map of North Europe.This influential map of the Arctic, including Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and part of the North American con...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2019
Europae Tabula VIII.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Showing "Daniae et Norvegiae" as an island, with a separate is...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2018
![Daniae Regni .. / Oldenburg Com. [2 maps].](/uploads/cache/40978-250x250.jpg)
Daniae Regni .. / Oldenburg Com. [2 maps].
Two maps on one sheet. The left hand is centered on Denmark, with a credit to the cartographer, Cornelis Anthoniszoon (1499-1557) Cornelius Antoniades Descripsit .The rig...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2018
Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
This influential map of the Arctic, including Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and part of the North American continent, includes also the legendary islands of i.a. Drogeo...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2018
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $6300
Sold in 2018
Gemeine Beschreibung aller Mitnachtigen Lander / alss Schweden / Gothen / Norwegien / Denmarck / &c.
Sebastian Münster’s third and final map of Scandinavia including England, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, The Baltics, Greenland and America by Sebastian Munster 159...
Place & Date: Basle, 1598
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2019
Odense.
The Danish city of Odense is presented in a sweeping panorama seen in a bird's-eye view from the south. The River Odense winding its way across the landscape flows into t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1598
Selling price: $290
Sold in 2020
Islandia.
Quad's : reduced in size Ortelius´ map, of Iceland. With German text on verso, from Geographisch Handtbuch. Signed by the engraver Johan Bussemacher.Rare in original col...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1600
Selling price: $2070
Sold in 2016
![Stocholmia [Stockholm].](/uploads/cache/44040-250x250.jpg)
Stocholmia [Stockholm].
The top engraving, showing the timber houses so typical of Scandinavia, is a view from the northeast across what was then the suburb of Norrmalm and is now the city centr...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588-1600
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2020
Islandia.
Quad's : reduced in size Ortelius´ map, of Iceland. With German text on verso, from Geographisch Handtbuch. Signed by the engraver Johan Bussemacher.Matthias Quad was o...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1600
Selling price: $1900
Sold in 2023