This very large
finely engraved beautifully hand coloured original
antique map of Scandinavia was engraved by Hubert
Jaillot - after Nicolas Sanson - in 1696 - the date is
engraved in the title.
Before the
fifteenth century the people of Southern Europe had
little geographical knowledge of the Scandinavian World
except from sketchy detail shown in the Catalan Atlas
(1375) and on a number of " portolani" embracing Denmark
and the southern tip of Norway. It was not until 1427
that a manuscript map prepared about that time by
Claudius Clavus (b.1388) a Dane who spent some time in
Rome, made available to scholars a tolerable outline of
the northern countries and Greenland. That was to remain
the best map available for the rest of the century and
it was used as the basis for maps of Scandinavia in
early printed editions of Ptolemy. Others by Nicolaus
Cusanus (1491) and Ehrhard Etzlaub (c. 1492) followed
but, needless to say, these are extremely rare; even the
later maps by Olaus Magnus and Marcus Jordan, where they
have survived at all , are known only by a very few
examples. In fact, apart from the rare appearance of an
early Ptolemy map, the oldest of Scandinavia which a
collector is likely to find are those of Munster's
Cosmograhy first published in 1544. In the following
centuries the few maps and charts complied in
Scandinavia were usually published in Amsterdam,
Antwerp, Paris or Nuremberg, the most important maps
often being incorporated in the major Dutch, French &
German Atlases. (Ref: Tooley; M&B)
General
Description:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color: - off white
Age of map color: - Original & later
Colors used: - Yellow, green, red, brown.
General color appearance: - Authentic and fresh
Paper size: - 37in x 24in (940mm x 610mm)
Plate size: - 35in x 23in (890mm x 585mm)
Margins: - Min 1in (25mm)
Imperfections:
Margins: - Several small repairs to margins, no loss
Plate area: - Horizontal fold, light soiling and
creasing
Verso: - None
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