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WIDMARK, HENRIK ADOLF.

Född 1833 5/9 i Ljusdals sn (Gävleb.), död 1889 3/3 i Karlstad.
Major i armén. Landshövding. Kartograf och etsare. Son av lantmätaren och landshövdingen Per Henrik W. och Carolina Andrietta Ström. Kartograf vid Rikets allmänna kartverk 1859-73. Var kapten vid Hälsinge regemente och major i armén, då han 1873 utnämndes till landshövding i Norrbottens län. Erhöll 1885 transport till Värmlands län.





Bland arbeten.
Karta över Göta kanal med utsikter, efter A. Nay, etsn.


Hultmark, 1944.

STEEN, HELGE.

1851-1914.
Norsk ingenjör. 1874 fick han anställning som ingenjör vid 'Vassdragsvesenet' där han sedan verkade. Han deltog mycket i mätningsarbeten över hela Norge och utförde ett grundläggande undersökningsarbete vid förberedelserna av Bandakkanalen. Förutom Norgekartor gav han även ut specialkartor över Bandak-Nordsjökanalen samt över sträckan Christiania-Bergen.


T U. 1914. - U.B.

Colom, Jacob Aertsz.

1600-73 - ARNOLD COLOM (son) c. 1624-68
Jacob Colom was a printer, bookseller, chart and globe maker who set out to challenge the virtual monopoly held by W. J. Blaeu, then the only chart maker in Amsterdam. His Pilot Guide De Vyerighe Colom published in various formats and languages (with exotic tides) to meet the demands of the time was highly successful and forced Blaeu to revise and enlarge his existing chart books. In spite of Blaeu's efforts, Colom's Guide remained popular with seamen for many years and although the charts were issued in great quantity, they are now extremely rare.


Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.


Vallentunasjön med omgivningar. 1873.

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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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