Search Results: Scandinavia & Baltic from Bryars and Bryars

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

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 and lower middle classes. Some of the material was decidedly abstruse, subscribers fell away and the Society was wound up in 1848; however, the series of 209 maps published over a 14 year period from 1829 onwards were highly praised for their superior quality, accuracy and aesthetic appeal and remain an outstanding achievement. Map

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

London, 1831. Copper engraving, 31.5 x 24 cms, original hand-colour, from the edition of Wilkinson’s General Atlas published by Hamilton, Adams & Co. Map

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. A substantial enlargement took place in 1550, and after Münster's death in 1552 his step-son, Heinrich Petri (and his son, Sebastian), continued to revise and augment the work. A major revision took place in 1588, replacing some of the original maps with new examples following those in Ortelius' Theatrum; in the 1590s improved town plans were added, following the accurate examples in Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, so that by the last edition of 1628 the work had swollen to include over 260 maps and views. It was an immensely popular work: over forty editions were issued in half a… Read More

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 Northern War (1700-1721). 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. He was appointed cartographer to the Holy Roman Emperor in 1715 (the privilege is engraved on our copy of the map), and his maps were sold throughout Europe. After Homann's death the business was continued by his son, Johann Christoph, and then by the Homann Heirs (his friend Johann Michael Franz and his stepsister's husband, the engraver Johann Georg Ebersberger). Map

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 place in 1550, and after Münster's death in 1552 his step-son, Heinrich Petri (and his son, Sebastian), continued to revise and augment the work. A major revision took place in 1588, replacing some of the original maps with new examples following those in Ortelius' Theatrum; in the 1590s improved town plans were added, following the accurate examples in Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, so that by the last edition of 1628 the work had swollen to include over 260 maps and views. It was an immensely popular work: over forty editions were issued in half a dozen… Read More

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

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 the Royal Geographical Society and was appointed Geographer to both George IV and William IV. James Wyld junior inherited a thriving business. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and succeeded his father as Geographer to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Map

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 the Royal Geographical Society and was appointed Geographer to both George IV and William IV. James Wyld junior inherited a thriving business. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and succeeded his father as Geographer to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Map

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

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso. Map

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. Apprenticed to John Roper in 1799, he learned the art of engraving. In later life he is variously recorded as a commission and discount agent (imprisoned for debt in 1835), a stationer, and a dealer in beer and wine.  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

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.6 cms, black and white as issued, Latin text on verso. 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

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

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. He was appointed cartographer to the Holy Roman Emperor in 1715, and his maps were sold throughout Europe. After Homann's death the business was continued by his son, Johann Christoph, and then by the Homann Heirs (his friend Johann Michael Franz and his stepsister's husband, the engraver Johann Georg Ebersberger). Map

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 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 and lower middle classes. Some of the material was decidedly abstruse, subscribers fell away and the Society was wound up in 1848; however, the series of 209 maps published over a 14 year period from 1829 onwards were highly praised for their superior quality, accuracy and aesthetic appeal and remain an outstanding achievement. Map