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Auction 138, Lot 529
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"Chart of the Straits between Denmark and Sweden, Shewing the Passage from the Kattegat through the Sound, to Copenhagen Road, and thence through the Grounds to the Entrance of the Baltic", Faden, William

Subject: Denmark & Sweden

Period: 1801 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
15.3 x 24 inches
38.9 x 61 cm
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This scarce chart of the Straits between Denmark and Sweden extends from Kullen Point in Kattegat to Falsterbo in the Baltic. Copenhagen, Malmo and Landscrona are prominently depicted, with notes on the fortifications of Copenhagen. Tycho Brahe's observatory on Hveen is shown. The chart features remarkable detail of soundings, anchorages, navigational hazards, lighthouses, and windmills.

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Condition: B+

Original color with marginal soiling. There is a binding trim at bottom left with a resulting tear that enters 1.5" into blank area of map image that has been closed on verso with Japanese tissue.

Estimate: $350 - $450

Sold for: $180

Closed on 12/7/2011

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