Antique Map of the Duchy of Holstein by Wyld (c.1840)

Description: Antique map titled 'A Map of the Dutchy of Holstein, with the Territories of the Imperial Towns Hamburg & Lubek, Also The Bishoprick of Eutin, Laid down from Fischer's Map (..)'. Scarce regional map of Northern Germany, focused on the Duchy of Holstein and towns of Hamburg and Lubeck. Beautifully engraved to show fortified towns, principal towns, market towns, castles, noblemen's seats, farms, villages, windmills, dykes and topography. Source unknown, to be determined.

Artists and Engravers: James Wyld (1812–1887) was a British geographer and map-seller, best known for Wyld's Great Globe. He was successor to William Faden, one of the luminaries of late eighteenth century publishing in England.  Wyld maintained the high standard of graphic and factual excellence that had been established by his predecessor and his maps are among the finest published in the early nineteenth century.