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METIO, [METIUS, MATIUS], ADRIANO.

1571-1635.
Mathematician and astronomer.

Bland arbeten.
W. Frisia 1630, used by Hondius and Blaeu.


Tooley.

Sanuto, Livio.


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

FER, NICOLAS de.

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.

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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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