Sent 1600-tal.
Bok- och kartförläggare bl.a. tillsammans med Francis Lamb (se denne).
1565-1629.
Petrus Bertius grew up in Beveren in Flanders and as a young man travelled widely in Europe. In company with so many of his compatriots he moved to Amsterdam as a refugee from religious persecution and after completing his studies there he was appointed a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia (based on Mercator's edition of 1578) and for the miniature atlases detailed below. In 1618 he moved to Paris and became Official Cosmographer to Louis XIII. He was related by marriage to Jodocus Hondius and Pieter van den Keere.
Ca. 1815.
Engelsk kopparstickare. Inga övriga upplysningar hittade, om han inte är identisk med den J. Cross som nämns av Thieme-Becker. Från dennes hand kom särskilt heraldiska exlibris och porträtt (ca. 1820-60).
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
'Magni Ducatus Finlandiae Russiae partim, partim Sueciae subjecti...' - Lotter ca 1770.
Biografiska uppgifter:1725-1802. Född i Paris, död i Carrières de Charenton.
Fransk kopparstickare. Han lär ha skapat uppemot 1200 kartor, stadsplaner och liknande arbeten, bl a. för d'Anville (se denne) och Robert de Vaugondy.
(Thieme-Becker.)
