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BRY, JOH. ISRAEL de.

Död 1611.
Tysk kopparstickare, son till kopparstickaren Theodore de Bry (se denne). Han samarbetade med sin far och bror Johann Theodore de Bry (se denne), bl.a. med verket 'India Orientalis' som kom i flera band omkring 1599 och i senare utgåvor.
Bland arbeten.
India Orientalis.


Thieme-Becker. - Wieder.

JOHNSTON, Sir WILLIAM.

1802-88. Född och död i Kirkhill.
Skotsk kartograf, bror till JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH. Efter sin lärotid som kartgravör etablerade han 1826 tillsammans med sin bror det ansedda kartförlaget W. & A. K. Johnston i Edinburgh. William Johnston hade under årens lopp en rad olika offentliga förtroendeuppdrag. Bla. var han under några år borgmästare i Edinburgh. 1867 drog han sig tillbaka från företaget.


Dict. nat. biogr.

JANVIER, JEAN.


Fransk geograf i slutet av 1700-talet. Det finns en rad enkla kartor av honom från åren 1753-91 men ingen hel atlas. Titeln geograf anger han själv på kartorna. Inga ytterligare upplysningar om honom har funnits, om han inte är identisk med Jean Francois Augustin Janvier de Flainville (1717-91), som var advokat till 1759, inspektör vid krigsakademin vid revolutionen 1789 och senare borgmästare i Chartres och dessutom känd arkeolog.


Nouv. biogr. gen. - Phillips. - Tooley.


Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734


Schweiz. - Weiland 1833.

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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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