A hand-colored 17th-century map of Scandinavia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Lapland, and parts of Russia and the Baltic. An ornate title cartouche depicts provincial coats of arms. The seas are illustrated with ships and compass roses. Topographical features like mountains and forests are marked with pictorial symbols.

A most exact TABLE of the Kingdoms of SWEDEN and NORWAY.

A most exact table of the Kingdoms of

SWEDEN and NORWAY,

as well as of the

ENTIRE EASTERN SEA,

and adjacent lands, published with the greatest care by

Andreas Buræus the Swede

and newly curated, with singular

zeal, humbly dedicated to

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, by the Grace of God,

King of the Swedes, Goths, and Vandals, Grand

Duke of Finland, Duke of Estonia and Karelia,

Lord of Ingria, etc.

By Nicolaus Johannes Visscher.

The great river Tana has been left by Peter of Reben from the Arctic regions, as far as this sea, which was previously entirely unknown. It is named by those of that direction, subsequently, the Ob, the Varus, the Vistula, the River of Livonia, Riga, etc., which they affirm extend from here to the Ocean; some even think this same river reaches the White Sea, and from there to the Arctic Ocean. And not without reason, as the landscape there suggests that it undoubtedly leads to the Frozen Sea, where the Arctic Ocean also lies.

For the people inhabiting this region of the Lapps have been ingenuous in their manner and provision of food; they focus solely on fishing and hunting, and they prohibit rustic farmers of the land from this region, the rest being common to the Lapps.

NORTHERN OCEAN

SWEDEN

NORWAY

FINLAND

LAPLAND

RUSSIA

WHITE SEA

Gulf of Bothnia

Gulf of Finland

BALTIC SEA

Commonly The North Sea

Commonly The East Sea

ESTONIA
LIVONIA
COURLAND
SAMOGITIA
LITHUANIA
PRUSSIA
POMERANIA
PART OF POLAND
PART OF DENMARK
PART OF GERMANY

Scale of miles

German common miles responding to 15 per degree

Swedish & Danish miles

Norwegian miles

Gallic & Italian miles

English miles