METIO, [METIUS, MATIUS], ADRIANO.
1571-1635.
Mathematician and astronomer.
Bland arbeten.
W. Frisia 1630, used by Hondius and Blaeu.
Tooley.
Bland arbeten.
Geografia di M. Livio Sanuto distinta in XII libri. Venice: Damiano Zenaro, 1588.
The first printed atlas of Africa. Sannuto’s Geographia was intended as a compendium of world geography, but the project was curtailed by his death. Only the first part, devoted to Africa, was ever published, and that posthumously. Skelton describes the Geographia as a “methodical and precisely documented description of the geography of Africa” and notes the “critical sense” exercised in the compilation of the maps, engraved by Sanuto’s brother Giulio.
It is unfortunate that the work was left incomplete, as Skelton suggests it would have been “among the masterpieces of Renaissance geography”; the fact it was incomplete may help explain its rarity on the market today.
Skelton, Bibliographical note to the facsimile of Livio Sanuto’s Geographia dell Africa.
Sotheby's. Mendelssohn (1957) II, p. 269; Nordenskiöld Collection 2, 277; Skelton, Bibliographical note to the facsimile of Livio Sanuto’s Geographia dell Africa.3 5000-7000
1646-1720.
Fransk kopparstickare och geograf. Var en av de mest beresta av den tidens geografer. Vid sin död var han kunglig geograf. Som kartograf var han mycket produktiv. Noggrannheten var inte alltid den bästa men hans kartor var ofta elegant utstyrda. Bland hans främsta verk kan nämnas 'La France triomphante sous le règne de Louis le Grand' (1693), en karta i 6 blad, prydd med över 200 kartuscher som visar kungaporträtt, medaljer, monument etc., 'Les Cótes de France' (1695) och 'La France divisée par généralités' (1718). Dessutom finns en mängd specialkartor över franska provinser, vägar, vattendrag m.m.. Han gav också ut en 'Introduction à la Géographie', som kom i flera utgåvor.
Bland arbeten.
La France triomphante sous le règne de Louis le Grand.
Les Cótes de France.
La France divisée par généralités.
Introduction à la Géographie
Nouv. biogr. gen.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
'Prince of Circassia...', 'Circassian of the common Order.' - London 1809.