SDUK Map of Stockholm Mapmaker(s)_Johannes Degler highly successful piracy

highly successful piracy

tou Oulpianou rhetoros

near Cuneo in Piedmont

This map of Cumberland is by Moule

later (but not recent) hand colour

SDUK Map of Stockholm Mapmaker(s)_Johannes Degler highly successful piracyThis map of Stockholm, with a view of of the city on a scroll bottom left, was published by the SDUK. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high minded aim of making 'useful' information available to the self taught. Some of the material was decidedly abstruse, subscribers fell away and the Society was wound up in 1848; however, the series of 209 maps published over a 14 year period from 1829 onwards were