1803-80.
Tysk förlagsbokhandlare. Född i Siblingen, död i Leipzig. Efter utbildning i bokhandlarkonsten i Basel, Genève, Paris och Freiburg etablerade han sig i Leipzig 1833. Han intresserade sig speciellt för illustrerade verk och gav bl.a. ut 'Pfenningmagazin' och 'Illustrierte Zeitung'. Förlaget existerade åtminstone till 1950-talet.
Bland arbeten.
Pfenningmagazin.
Illustrierte Zeitung.
Der Grosse Brockhaus.
LAZIUS, [LAZIO, LATZEN], WOLFGANG.
(1514-65). Hungarian cartographer, Prof. Medicine Vienna, and Secretary to Thomas Bakocz, Archbishop of Esztergom. Oldest known map of Hungary known as Lazar's map (78.3x54.8 cm.) published by Tanstetter in 1528 includes Slovakia. His maps of Austria, Hungary and Bavaria weer used by Mercator, Ortelius &c.,
Bland arbeten.
Austria 1545, 1556 (4 sh.),
Hungary 1556 (10 sh.),
Bavaria 1545,
Greece 1558 (4 sh.),
Peloponese 1558,
Tyrol 1561,
Atlas of Austrian Provinces 1561.
Tooley
1770-1823.
Vallance arrived in Philadelphia from Glasgow Scotland early in 1791. He quickly established his reputation as one of the best engravers in the city. During this period he developed a friendship with James Thackara. In 1791 Vallance married Elizabeth Trenchard, a niece of Thackara's wife Hannah. A partnership with Thackara was established. He engraved banknotes and documents. In addition he was one of the founders, in 1774, of the Association of Artists in America. His wife Elizabeth died in 1798 at the age of 28. Four years later he married again to Margaret Pratt.
Washington Map Society.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
