Ca. 1664-1717. Född och död i Amsterdam.
Holländsk bokhandlare. Levde i Amsterdam där han fick borgerskap 1697. Han handlade främst med kartor och kopparstick, och arbetade även själv som kopparstickare. Han gav ut flera kartor, men ingen hel atlas. Hans son Theodorus Danckerts (se denne) fortsatte sedan verksamheten.
Kleerkooper.
1851-1914.
Norsk ingenjör. 1874 fick han anställning som ingenjör vid 'Vassdragsvesenet' där han sedan verkade. Han deltog mycket i mätningsarbeten över hela Norge och utförde ett grundläggande undersökningsarbete vid förberedelserna av Bandakkanalen. Förutom Norgekartor gav han även ut specialkartor över Bandak-Nordsjökanalen samt över sträckan Christiania-Bergen.
T U. 1914. - U.B.
Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at...
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
'Die Ostsee von Jershöft bis Steinort'. 1944
