SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

LAFRERI [LAFRÈRIE, LAFRERY], ANTONIO.

1512-1577.
Cartographer, publisher, map and printseller born Besancon in Burgundy. Antoine du Perac Lafrèrie emigrated to Rome about 1540 and set up in business in the Via de Perione in 1544. Partner with Salamanca 1553-63, and continued alone until his death in 1577. Succeeded by Claude Duchetti. Catalogue of his publications in 1572. One of the first to issue collections of maps in atlas form, variable in contents; to the later examples he added a title page.

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Tavole moderni &c., World n.d., Europe 1560.
Northern Regions 1572.
Asia 1561.
Cyprus 1570.
Genoa 1573.
Lombardy 1564.
Malta 1565.
Rome 1577.
Milan 1573 &c.

Chavannes, Alexandre César

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Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.

SPARRMAN, ANDERS.

1748-1820. Född 27 febr. 1748 i Tensta socken, Uppland, död 9 aug. 1820 i Stockholm.
Naturforskare, forskningsresande, studerade i Uppsala som Linnés lärjunge och fick vid 17 års ålder som skeppsläkare medfölja ett af Ostindiska kompaniets fartyg till Indien 1765-67. Efter medicinsk examen 1770 antog S. ett anbud att göra en forskningsresa i Kap-landet, och i egenskap af lärare i en högre tjänstemans hus erhöll han tillträde till detta land. Han vistades där under en del af 1772 samt 1775-76 och var under mellantiden, nov. 1772- mars 1775, vetenskaplig medlem af Cooks andra resa i Söderhafvet och Södra ishaf-vet. Han promoverades frånvarande till med. doktor i Uppsala 1775 och blef efter hemkomsten led. af Vet. akad. 1776; han innehade 1778-98 förordnandet att ha tillsyn öfver akademiens naturaliekabinett. Jämte K. A. Arrhenius och K. B. Wadström företog S. 1787-88 en resa till Senegaltrakten i Väst-Afrika med uppdrag att där utse plats för en svensk koloni, ett syfte, som dock ej uppnåddes. S. blef 1790 professor i naturalhistoria och farmakologi och 1803 assessor i Collegium medicum och var...
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'Charta öfver Calmar län samt Öland...' - 1796.
Chart Cape of Good Hope 1779, 1785.
Charac-teres generum plantarum', 'Florulse insularum australium prodromus.

Tooley.Nordisk familjebok. 2:a upplagan.

Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734

Isle de Madagascar autrement Isle de S.t Laurent. - J. N. Bellin ca 1747.

Sophianos, Nikolaos.

Sophianos was well known as an expert on Greek history and geography. He was sent to Greece in about 1543 by Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the Spanish envoy to Venice, to acquire Greek manuscripts for the Escurial Library. It is about this time – possibly in 1540, the date found at the end of Sophianos text on this map – that Sophianus compiled his great map of Greece, although there is no surviving example.
In 1544, Johann Oporinus, a printer and publisher in Basle, published an eight-sheet version of Sophianos map, cut by Master Christoph of Strasburg. Of this earliest printing, there is also no known extant example. Indeed, the earliest surviving printing of the map recorded by Zacharakis or Karrow was printed by Johann Schroeter in Basle in 1601.
It appears that Oporinus reprinted the map in 1545 to accompany his edition of Gerbelius “In Descriptionem Graeciae Sophiani, Praefatio….”. Although the book gives instructions on colouring the map, and contains additional gazetteer, the map seems not to have been routinely bound with the book, but rather was issued separately, hence its rarity.
Karrow records no example of the book with the map, however, an example in the Library of Congress is described as having the map(the British Library example does not), and this example almost certainly owes its survival, and fine condition, to having been bound in the book, as the page size is very similar to the BL example.
Karrow notes that Oporinus commissioned a series of town views to accompany the map. Visible along the lower border is the upper border of a frame where these views might have been placed, but this additional panel has been masked off in printing.
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Descriptio nova totivs Graeciae per Nicolavm Sophianvm. Basle, 1544-1545, large woodcut wall-map of Greece, on eight sheets uncut, each sheet approx. 380 x 280mm., with an additional sheet with letterpress gazetteer. Of great rarity. The earliest surviving wall-map of Greece and the first significant modern map of Greece, compiled by Nickolaos Sophianos, a Greek cartographer from Corfu, born of a noble family there. This example is apparently the second state of the map. It retains the date 1544 just above the scale bar on the bottom right hand skeet, but the letterpress text in the left hand cartouche on the lower left sheet may have been reset, in whole or part, as it ends with the date “prid[ie] Calend[is]. Septembr[is]. Anno salutis publiae M D X L V”.
(Sotheby's. Zacharakis, Printed Maps of Greece: Sophianos 2242; Karrow, Mapmakerers of the Sixteenth Century, 71/1.2.)

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