SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, DIDIER.

1726-86
Fransk kartograf, son till ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, GILLES. Han verkar ha gått i sin fars fotspår som kunglig geograf och hade dessutom titeln 'censeur royal'. Förutom nyutgåvor av faderns olika atlaser gav han 1785 ut 'Atlas de la France et de l'Europe'. Robert de Vaugondys atlas blev senare reviderad och utgiven på nytt av C. F. Delamarche.

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Atlas de la France et de l'Europe.

Nouv. biogr. gen. - Phillips.

SEIZO, HOSOJIMA.

Kartograf? Japan ca 1879.

RdeT.

CAROLUS FLANDRO [CARL] JORIS [GEORGIUS].

1601-1625.
Pilot and map maker. Compiled various MS maps and map of Iceland, printed by Hondius 1631, and Blaeu. Worked to improve Waghemaer's Het niewe Vermeerde Licht 1634.

Carolus, Joris [Georgius], holländsk skeppare och kartograf i början 1600-talet. Han var en välkänd skeppare i nordliga farvatten och deltog i tre expeditioner för att finna Nordvästpassagen. 1625 besökte han Island, och erbjöd sig i ett brev därifrån att gå i tjänst hos Danmarks konung Christian IV, vilket troligtvis aldrig blev av. Efter hemkomsten till Holland gav han 1626 ut en karta över nämnda trakt, 'Nieuwe pascaert van Ijsland, Fretum Davids ende de landen daer by westen' och 1634 utgav han ett nautiskt verk, 'Hetnieuw vermeerde Licht... des Grooten Zeevaerts', som innehöll en ny karta över dessa farvatten. Han utarbetade en specialkarta över Island som publicerades första gången i J.J. Pontanus: 'Rerum Danicarum historia' (1631). Förläggaren av detta verk var Joannes Janssonius (se denne) som senare tog med kartan i sin atlas. Den f...
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Nieuwe pascaert van Ijsland, Fretum Davids ende de landen daer by westen.
Hetnieuw vermeerde Licht... des Grooten Zeevaerts.
Islands karta i Rerum Danicarum historia.

Tooley.H. Hermannsson i Islandica, b. XVII, s. 22f., och b. XXI, s. 36f.

Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.

Hans Burgkmaiers Turnier-Buch. - Frankfurt 1853.

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.
Bland arbeten:
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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