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Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel.


Doppelmayr, an acclaimed astronomer, was born in Nuremberg in 1671. He was a member of the Royal Society of London and the Academies of Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg.
It is not surprising that Dopplemayr collaborated with Germany’s leading map publisher Johann Baptist Homann on both the terrestrial and celestial maps included in this atlas. He visited astronomers in many countries and hence in addition to the star charts and selenographic map, the atlas includes “diagrams illustrating the planetary system of Copernicus, Tycho, and Riccilio; the ecliptic theories of Kepler, Bouliaeu, Seth Ward and Mercator; the lunar theories of Tycho, Horrocks and Newton, and Halley’s cometary theory” (DSB IV, p. 166).
Bland arbeten.
Atlas novus Coelestis. Nuremberg: Homann’s Heirs, 1742.
First edition, folio (560 x 390mm), engraved allegorical additional titles (plain), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved index listing 30 subjects and 30 double-page engraved celestial charts and diagrams, some incorporating miniature world maps or spandrel illustrations of astronomical observatories, in contemporary hand colour and wash.


Sotheby's

Bourgeois, Nicolas-Maximilien


Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.

NAGAEV, ALEKSEI IVANOVICH.

1704-1781.
Rysk amiral. Nagaev skickades 1715 till Marinakademin i St Petersburg där han sex år senare blev underofficer. Redan efter några månader började Nagaev undervisa kadetter och detta pågick fram till 1724 på Kronstadt och sedan på Marinakademin i St Petersburg fram till 1729. Under dessa år hann Nagaev även med att övervaka arbetena på en kanal i Kronstadt. År 1723 publicerades tre nya sjökort i tredje upplagan av ryska sjöatlasen över Östersjön vilka Nagaev och I. L. Lyuberas hade uppmätt. Dessa är de första ryskproducerade sjökorten i den första ryska sjöatlasen över Östersjön. De två tidigare utgåvorna var i sin helhet kopior av Geddas svenska sjöatlas. Efter att mellan 1729 och 1733 karterat Kaspiska havet runt Astrakhan återvände Nagaev 1735 till St Petersburg. Åren 1741-42 förde Nagaev befäl på två resor mellan Arkangelsk och St Petersburg. På den andra resan sjönk hans fartyg och Nagaev ställdes inför rätta men frikändes och återinsattes i tjänst. Efter Vitus Berings död så sändes Nagaev iväg till Kamcha...


Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.


Automobil-karta över södra och mellersta Sverige. - Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalt 1924.

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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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