Sea Charts · 18th century
€ 490
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Mounted to paper. Some wear and age-related toning. Please review the images for further condition details.
Antique map titled 'The Coast of Norway and Lapland, from North kyn to the River Kola'.
Sea Chart of Northern Norway, also depicting part of Lapland and Russia. The map covers from the Kola river to what the map calls Fishers Island (Rybachy Peninsula) and east toward Kamoyvaer past Vardo. Small inset map depicting Wardhouse Island (Vardoya). This map originates from Thornton's 'Sea Atlas (..)'.
Artists and Engravers: Samuel Thornton was the son the English mapmaker John Thornton, an eminent English mapmaker of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.
Condition: Fair, mounted to paper. Some wear and age-related toning, please study image carefully.
