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MOUNT & PAGE., W. and J. Mount, and T. Page.


Engelsk kartförläggare. Firman grundades av Richard Mount som 1693 utgav G. Collins: Great Britain's Coasting Pilot. Tillsammans med Thomas Page utgav han 1702 'Atlas maritimus novus', som kom i flera utgåvor under de kommande åren. 1723 utgav T. Page, W. och F. Mount J. Norris 'Complete Set of new Charts, North Se, Baltick'. Firman bedrev sin verksamhet ännu 1763 och utgav då J.G. Alganas sjökartverk över Portugal och Medelhavet.

Bland arbeten.
Atlas maritimus novus.
Complete Set of new Charts, North Se, Baltick.
The English Pilot, ursprungligen av John och Samuel Thornton.


Phillips - Tooley. Biblioserver.

Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de.


Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.

Alphen, Pieter van.

Ca 1632-91.
A bookseller and publisher in Rotterdam, whose charts and maps were largely based on those of his father-in-law, Jacob Aertsz. Colom. His Nieuwe Zee-Atlas of 1660 was an important assembly of sea charts including many of South East Asia and Australia.


Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.


'S.R.I. Sueviae Circulus' - Frederick de Wit, Pieter Mortier, ca 1710.

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L'ENFANT, PIERRE CHARLES.

Biografiska uppgifter:1754-1825.
L'Enfant was born in Paris where he trained to be an architect. He came to America in 1777, and served George Washington as an engineer during the Revolutionary War. In 1791 President Washington asked L'Enfant to design the new capitol city in the District of Columbia. L'Enfant designed a city similar in layout to the then French capitol city of Versailles. The Capitol in Washington sits in a position similar to that of the palace in Versailles, the White House (originally called the President's House) in the position of Grand Trianon, and the Mall is like the Parc. The Commissioners of the City of Washington wanted to have a printed copy of the plan when they began to sell building lots. L'Enfant irritated them by working slowly and releasing only sketchy plans . On instruction from President Washington, Thomas Jefferson on February 27, 1792 wrote a letter to L'Enfant dismissing him as city planner. L'Enfant died penniless and was buried on a friend's estate. In 1909 his remains were moved to Arlington National Cemetery on a hill overlooking the capitol city.



(Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Pierre Charles L'Enfant'. )

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