The art of cartography (or not getting lost) 

A selection of items will be on display from March 15th to 20th at Nybrogatan 32, weekdays 10am-6pm, Saturdays 11am-4pm, closed Sundays. Welcome to the viewing!

Sometimes you see them rolled out on grand desks in lavish films. They illustrate borders and territories in front of potentates with dreams of dominion, moving their tiny model cannons across the colored sheets.

But usually, it's the purely instrumental ones that with clinical precision depict land and sea areas for orienteers, city planners, boat owners, and all those who, for one reason or another, need to keep track of their place in the world. In the winding cartographic history, specimens of all kinds occur.

And at latitude 59, Stockholms Auktionsverk has now laid out a careful selection from various epochs and different parts of the world. Here is Carl Akrel's exquisite oval-shaped map of Stockholm, which he had drawn up "in deepest humility" for the king. Also seen here is Abraham Ortelius's map of Southeast Asia from 1588, and Pieter Pleys's connoisseur's work on the island of Anouan. These are just a few examples from a rich theme that also offers a globe or two, a magnificent lithograph depicting Hamburg, and a handful of miniature maps from 17th-century Amsterdam.

Welcome to Stockholms Auktionsverk and the theme of the Art of Cartography (or the art of not getting lost)!