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Bagge, Jonas Samuel.

Född i Uddevalla 1 juli 1803, död 4 januari 1870.
fysiker. Född i Uddevalla d. 1 juli 1803. Föräldrar: rådmannen Daniel Benjamin Bagge, tillhörande en äldre gren af släktets, och Anna Charlotta von Schoultz.
Promoverad filosofie doktor i Lund 1829, utnämndes B. följande året till adjunkt i fysik vid Teknologiska institutet i Stockholm. 1838 utnämndes han till lärare i praktisk mekanik vid bergsskolan i Falun, med titel af professor. År 1853 förordnades han till chef på järnkontorets mekaniska stat och företog 1855 på uppdrag af bergskollegium en resa till Frankrike för att vid den där föranstaltade industriutställningen taga kännedom om järnhandteringen i främmande länder och på samma gång göra sig underrättad om de i Frankrike befintliga undervisningsanstalter för denna industrigren. B. utgaf bl. a. Elementarkurs i fysiken, såsom förberedelse till studium af fysiska teknologien 1835. Ledamot af Vet.-akad. 1857. Död d. 4 jan. 1870.
Gift 1836 med Anna Margareta Ödman.
Bland arbeten.
'Karta öfver Fahlu Stad.'

Grasset de Sainte-Sauveur, Jaques

Montreal 1757 - Paris 1810.
A late eighteenth and early nineteenth century French (Canadian) artist, writer and diplomat, Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur left Montreal in 1764 and began his studies with the Jesuits of Sainte-Barbe, in Paris. His first published book, Costumes civils de tous les peoples connus, dates from 1784. It deals with his lifelong passion of chronicling the peoples of other lands, particularly in remote areas. His other works include, Tableaux cosmographiques de l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique (1787), L'Antique Rome (1795), Encyclopedie des voyages (1796), and Voyage picturesque dans les autres parties du monde (1806). Groenlandais (Native of Greenland) was engraved by Labrousse for the c. 1797 publication, Costumes de different pays. Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur both designed the engravings and wrote the text for all of these publications. Besides being an artist and writer Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur also led an active diplomatic career. He served as France's vice-consul in Hungary and elsewh...
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Costumes civils de tous les peoples connus (1784), Tableaux cosmographiques de l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique (1787), L'Antique Rome (1795), Encyclopedie des voyages (1796), Voyage picturesque dans les autres parties du monde (1806), Costumes de different pays (c. 1797).

SEIZO, HOSOJIMA.

Kartograf? Japan ca 1879.

RdeT.

Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734

Tingstäde till Slite. 1890.

Covens et Mortier

Biografiska uppgifter:1721 - ca 1862.
The Amsterdam publishing firm of Covens and Mortier (1721 - c. 1862) was the successor to the extensive publishing empire built by Frenchman Pierre Mortier (1661 - 1711). Upon Mortier's death in 1711 his firm was taken over by his son, Cornelius Mortier (1699 - 1783). Cornelius married the sister of Johannes Covens (1697 - 1774) in 1821 and, partnering with his brother in law, established the Covens and Mortier firm. Under the Covens and Mortier imprint, Cornelius and Pierre republished the works of the great 17th and early 18th century Dutch and French cartographers De L'Isle, Allard, Jansson, De Wit, and Ottens among others. They quickly became one of the largest and most prolific Dutch publishing concerns of the 18th century. The firm and its successors published thousands of maps over a 120 year period from 1721 to the mid-1800s. During their long lifespan the Covens and Mortier firm published as Covens and Mortier (1721-1778), J. Covens and Son (1778 - 94) and Mortier, Covens and Son (1794 - c. 1862)

Under the heading Pieter Mortier we give some details of the extensive publishing business which he built up in Amsterdam and which, after his death, was subsequently taken over by his son, the above-named Cornelis. In 1721 Cornelis married the sister of Johannes Covens and in the same year he and Johannes entered into partnership as publishers under the name Covens and Mortier which, with its successors, became one of the most important firms in the Dutch map publishing business.
Their prolific Output over the years included reissues of general atlases by Sanson, Jaillot, Delisle, Visscher, de Wit (whose stock they acquired) and others (often with re-engraved maps), atlases of particular countries including Germany, England and Scotland and others in Europe, pocket atlases, town plans and, from about 1730 onwards, a series under the title Nieuwe Atlas, some consisting of as many as 900 maps by various cartographers and publishers. As there is no conformity about these volumes they were presumably made up to special order and only general details of publication can be quoted in a work of this size.

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