1750-1823.
He was an English geographer (mapmaker) and member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square, London from Winston, County Durham when about twenty years of age, and was employed by John Gary, the engraver and led for some years the office of hydrographer to the king. In January 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator projection. Four years later he published another large map of the world on the globular projection, with a companion volume of explanation. The maps of North America (1796) and Scotland (1807) are the most celebrated of his many later productions. He left two sons, Aaron and Samuel, the elder of whom was the compiler of the Eton Comparative Atlas, of a Biblical atlas, and of various manuals of geography.
The business was thus carried on in company with John Arrowsmith (1790-1873), nephew of the elder Aaron. In 1821, they published a more complete North American map from a combination of a maps obtained from the Hudson Bay Company and Aaro...
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First map of North America, 1790
A Map Exhibiting All the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America, January 1, 1795 (Other editions 1801, 1802, 1804 and 1816 featuring roads)
Chart of the South Pacific, 1798
A New Map of Africa, 1802
Map of Countries Round the North Pole, 1818
Ogden map (North America), 1821 (2nd edition : 1834)
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Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
1828-1900.
Kartograf. 1863-1896 anställd vid ekonomiska kartverket, en av sin tids främsta svenska kartografer. Bland hans många utgivna kartor, av vilka några utgått i flera upplagor, märkas, jämte sockenkartor, 'Ankologisk och fysisk karta öfver Sverige' med geografi (1857), 'Karta öfver Carlstads län', (1862), 'Karta öfver Mälaren och dess omgifningar' (1868), 'Ny och fullständig jernvägs-, post-, telegraf- och reskarta öfver Sverige' (samma år), 'Karta öfver Stockholm' (1870), 'Kultur- och reskarta öfver Sverige' (1876) och 'Karta öfver Wester Norrlands län' (1889).
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Ankologisk och fysisk karta öfver Sverige.
Karta öfver Carlstads län.
Karta öfver Mälaren och dess omgifningar.
Ny och fullständig jernvägs-, post-, telegraf- och reskarta öfver Sverige.
Karta öfver Stockholm.
Kultur- och reskarta öfver Sverige.
Karta öfver Wester Norrlands län.
Sign. ABC Sv. Uppsl.b. 2:a uppl. Bd 6 1948.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Åkers skeppslag. Kartlagt 1902-03.
JACOBSZ, THEUNIS (eller ANTHEUNIS).
Biografiska uppgifter:Ca. 1607-50. Född och död i Amsterdam.
c. 1606-50
JACOB JACOB5Z (LOOTSMAN) (son) d. 1679
Holländsk kartograf. Han var boktryckare och bokhandlare. 1648 gav han ut 't'Nieuw groot Straets-boeck, inhoudende d'Middelantse Zee'. Efter sin död gav sonen Jacob Theunisz (se denne) ut 't'Nieuwe en vergroote Zeeboeck, dat is des Piloots ofte Lootsmans Zee-Spiegel, inhoud de Zee-kusten vande Noordsche, Oosterzee ende Westersche Schipvaert' (1653). Båda dessa atlaser kom senare i flera utgåvor.
Anthonie Jacobsz founded a printing and publishing business in Amsterdam in which he specialized in the production of pilot books and sea atlases. As he died at a comparatively early age most of the numerous editions of his works appeared after his death published by his sons, Jacob and Caspar, who took the name 'Lootsman' (sea pilot) to distinguish them from another printer of the name Jacobsz.
Following Blaeu and Colom, Anthonie Jacobsz was the most important compiler of sea charts in Amsterdam in the first half of the seventeenth century. In his new ZeeSpiegel issued in 1643 he increased the number of charts normally included in these books and enlarged them to folio size, which evidently proved popular. Editions in many forms appeared until 1715 and they were copied or reprinted by Pieter Goos, Hendrick Doncker and Jan Jansson, sometimes in competition with each other but usually in cooperation with the Lootsman brothers.
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t'Nieuw groot Straets-boeck, inhoudende d'Middelantse Zee.
t'Nieuwe en vergroote Zeeboeck, dat is des Piloots ofte Lootsmans Zee-Spiegel, inhoud de Zee-kusten vande Noordsche, Oosterzee ende Westersche Schipvaert.
(Kleerkooper. - Phillips.)
