Subject: Scandinavia
Period: 1785 (dated)
Publication: Guthrie's New System of Geography
Color: Hand Color
Size:
14.5 x 13.1 inches
36.8 x 33.3 cm
This map of Scandinavia depicts key towns and political subdivisions. It includes an inset map of Iceland that shows part of Greenland and Jan Mayen Island, here still called Trinity I. despite the fact that the name had officially changed to Jan Mayen in the early 17th century.
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Condition: B
Contemporary outline color on paper with a Strasbourg Lily watermark and dampstaining entering the image at top. Small tears in the left blank margin along the platemark have been archivally repaired on verso.