1725-94.
Engelsk konsthandlare och kartförläggare. Han gav bl.a. ut 'Atlas Britanniquee' (1766), 'English Atlas' (1787) samt en atlas med 41 kartor tryckta under åren 1757-94. Förutom kartorna känner man till en rad koppartryck som har hans namn och adress men däremot inga som han själv utfört.
Sayer hade sin affär på No. 53 Fleet Street i London.
Bland arbeten.
Atlas Britanniquee.
English Atlas.
The Seven United Provinces, with Their Roads and Divisions.
Phillips. - Thieme-Becker.
1401-64.
Kardinal. Utarbetade en karta över Tyskland. Se vidare under Münster, Sebastian.
B. Smolenskoye, Vereysky district [now Moscow region], 1716-18; d. St Petersburg, 25 Feb 1770.
Russian draughtsman and engraver. He was the son of a priest, and from 1729 he studied at the St Petersburg Naval Academy. In August 1731 he was transferred to the instrument-making department of the Academy of Sciences, where he helped to make land-surveying instruments, including theodolites (a training that was of value when he later came to sketch views of St Petersburg); he also learnt how to carve moulds for dies under Georg Unfertsagt (1701-67); and he studied drawing under the two members of the Academy staff, Ottmar Elliger II and Elias Grimmel (1703-58). In June 1743 Makhayev was made director of the cartographic and die-carving section of the Academy, and he was employed there for the rest of his life. Together with his pupils he helped to produce the Atlas rossiyskoy imperii ('Atlas of the Russian Empire'; 1740s); in addition, he provided inscriptions for diplomas for honorary members of the Academy, for porcelain snuff-boxes and for a large silver shrine at the tomb of Aleksandr Nevsky (early 175...
Bagrow.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Kungur. 'Plan de la Grotte de Kungur.' - 1740-talet.
