fl. 1614-43
Abraham Goos was a noted engraver in Amsterdam who prepared plates for many maps published in well-known atlases of his time including Speed's A Prospect ofthe Most Famous Parts of the World (1627) and the 1632 edition of Speed's Atlas. He was related to the Hondius family by whom he was also employed as an engraver. In 1616 he issued a book of maps, the Nieuw Nederlandtsh Caertboeck (4to) which was re-issued in 1619 and 1625.
His son, Pieter, continued and extended his father's business and became one of the group of well-known engravers of sea charts active in Amsterdam in the middle years of the seventeenth century. In common with Colom, Doncker and Jacobsz he published a pilot guide, the Zee-Spiegel, basing it on plates obtained from Jacobsz. This went through many editions in different languages under the startling titles so popular at the time. In addition to publishing his Zee-Spiegel in the usual Parts 1 and II (Europe and Atlantic coasts) and Part III (Mediterranean) he broke new ground in pre...
Holländsk bok- och karthandlare i början av 1700-talet. 1721 ingick han kompanjonskap med Cornelius Mortier (se denne) och fortsatte under firmanamnet Cóvens et Mortier Pieter Mortiers (se denne) affär i Amsterdam. Firman gav ut flera stora atlaser, i de flesta fallen sammansatta med kartor utförda av flera kartritare under en relativt lång tid. Förutom ett par odaterade verk kan nämnas 'Nouvel Atlas' (ca. 1735) och 'Nieuve Atlas' (1730-39). 1761 kom 'Atlas nouveau' med kartor så långt bak i tiden som 1683. Firman fanns kvar till 1817.
Bland arbeten.
Nouvel Atlas (ca. 1735).
Nieuve Atlas (1730-39).
'Atlas nouveau (1761).
Kleerkooper. Phillips.
1525-1571.
Hans Rudolf Manuel (Deutsch) was a painter, designer and poet. Probably apprenticed with Maximilian Wischack in Basel in the early 1540s, he often designed for publishers in that city, although he lived in Bern. Less than a dozen known independent pen drawings and stained-glass designs bear dates (1540-50) and the monogram RMD. He designed greatly acclaimed topographical views of cities for Cosmographia. From 1562 he was governor of Morges in the canton of Waadt.
Bland arbeten.
Stadsvyer till Sebastian Münsters Kosmographica.
Vortecpan Maps & Prints.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Gålö - O. J. Hagelstam 1806.
