A fine dark impression of Homann's map of the Øresund, or Sund Sound showing Copenhagen on the Danish side and Helsingør and Malmö on the Swedish side. The map shows the strategically vital waterway separating the Danish island of Zealand from the Swedish province of Scania. Centrally positioned is the fortified city of Copenhagen. The Danish crown controlled this important sea passage to the Baltic and levied tolls on all passing ships, making the area both a trade hub and a military flash point.

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.

The third plate of the Ortelius map of Denmark. Produced after 1595, the Jutland map was drawn by Mark Jorden (1521-1595) and the the other is by Cornelis Anthoniszoon (1499-1557).

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 woodcut prospect of Copenhagen from Munsters Cosmographia.

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".

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 detailed bird's-eye view of Copenhagen, with all the important buildings shown in profile. Under the prospect are extensive lists of the noble families of the city.