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
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.
1812-97. Född i Oddernes, död i Christiania (Oslo).
Norsk officer. Blev officer 1827, från 1834 var han i artilleriet. 1849 blev han stabskapten, 1860 överstelöjtnant och 1880 överste. 1839-63 var han anställd vid 'Norges Geografiska Opmaaling' som konstruktör av länskartor. Under denna tid utarbetade han kartor över Christiania (Oslo), Buskerud, Bratsberg, Nedenes, Lister och Mandahl samt Stavanger län, de flesta i 2 eller 3 blad. - Författare till flera avhandlingar om militära frågor. Medlem av Vetenskapssällskapet i Trondheim.
Bland arbeten.
Kartor över Christiania (Oslo), Buskerud, Bratsberg, Nedenes, Lister och Mandahl samt Stavanger län.
N. biogr. leks. - de Seue.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
'Telegraf Karta Öfver Sverige' - 1867.
