A map of the North Atlantic and Scandinavia. Also shows Baffin Bay, Greenland, the Labrador Coast and Iceland.

An early Victorian detailed plan of the city, drawn br W.B.Clarke and engraved by J.Henshall, with a prospect of the city below. From the 1844 edition published by Chapman & Hall, for The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. With a prospect of the city under the map.

Published in Schriber's Atlas Selectus. The whole of Scandinavia.

With engraved vignettes including views of Copenhagen and Sleswig. John Tallis is without question one of the most renowned cartographers and publisher of the C19th. His maps are the last of the lavishly decorated and ornamental maps, considered to be works of art as well as geographically accurate. He was born in Stourbridge in Worcestershire in about 1818 and it is likely that he stayed in the Midlands working as a publisher in Birmingham, until he moved to London in the early 1840′s.

A fine early map of Iceland published in 'L'Isole del Monde'. Set in a page of text from a separate copper plate.

A scarce map of the whole of Scandinavia, with decorative cartouche. North is orientated to the right. Engraved by Antonio de Piene (not in Tooley Dictionary of Mapmakers) for "Emmanuele Tesauro's Del Regno d'Italia Sotto i Barbari Epitome".

A fine and detailed two sheet map (joined) of Scandinavia. From Jaillot's 'Nouvelle introduction a le geographie'. Embellished with two beautifully engraved title and scale cartouches. Cartographically based on the work of Nicholas Sanson.

The island of Fyn, with the town of Odense at its centre. Also includes the Danish islands of Als, Langeland and part of the island of Sjelland on which the capital of Copenhagen is situated.

An early map of Scandinavia, shows Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

An early Victorian detailed plan of the city, with a finely engraved inset panorama below. From the 1844 edition published by Chapman & Hall for The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, with a finely engraved inset panorama.

A fine map of Scandiavia with engraved vignettes including; a view of Norwegian Skielobere or Skate Runners (ski-ing), Peasants of Norway and of Sweden, also Laplanders in winter dress; an iron mine and a prospect of Stockholm. John Tallis is without question one of the most renowned cartographers and publisher of the C19th. His maps are the last of the lavishly decorated and ornamental maps, considered to be works of art as well as geographically accurate. He was born in Stourbridge in Worcestershire in about 1818 and it is likely that he stayed in the Midlands working as a publisher in Birmingham, until he moved to London in the early 1840′s.

Highly decorative map of Scandinavia and the Baltic states with a finely-engraved allegorical title cartouche top left.

A fine map showing Oslo Fjord, with the old name Christania. A very decorative mining scene takes up almost one third of the sheet on the right-hand side, showing heavy lifting machinery, smelting and an early centrifugal pump. The map extends south almost to Fredrikstad and clearly shows the town of Mosi (Moss). The original colour follows the border between Norway and Sweden. Decorative title cartouche adorned with cherubim.