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FADEN, WILLIAM.

1750-1836.
Engelsk kartförläggare som övertog Thomas Jeffreys (se denne) affär och gav ut en lång rad med anmärkningsvärt fina kartor, glober, stadsplaner, atlaser etc. En katalog från Faden, tryckt 1822 registrerar över 350 publikationer. Till hans mest värdefulla verk räknas 'North American Atlas' (1777). 1798 gav han ut 'Atlas minimus universalis' med 55 kartor. I övrigt utförde han ingen standardatlas, men satte samman enkla kartor till atlaser efter olika beställares önskemål. Samlingarna blev försedda med tryckta titelblad, men varierar stort beträffande innehåll och storlek.

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Phillips. - Tooley.

THERSNER, THORA JOHANNA ULRIKA.


I bredd med våra författarinnor, men på en annan väg producerande, utmärker sig demoiselle Thersner. Ett allmänt kändt och värderadt arbete, 'Svecia Antiqva et Hodierna', utgafs i förra århundradet af grefve Dahlberg, ett dyrbart arbete, som näppeligen i vår tid skulle kunna utgifvas i koppartryck, ehuru det blifvit fortsatt lithografiskt. Det var, redan i början af innevarande århundrade, i det afseendet föråldradt, att efter lång mellankommen tid de teckningar, arbetet gifvit, icke mera svarade mot det nuvarande utseendet, äfvensom en mängd andra märkvärdiga ställen funnos, de der icke i Dahlbergs arbete voro intagna. Konung Carl XIII ansåg att ett nytt arbete, i planen likt det gamla, borde utgifvas, och uppmanade dertill kaptenen (sedermera öfverstelöjtnanten) Ulrik Thersner, som inom geniekorpsen gjort sig känd såsom tecknare. Man anser sig icke behöfva förbigå det denne man väl också gjort sig för öfrigt utmärkt. Såsom kommenderad att vid ingenjörsarbetena biträda general Boje under belägringen för den ...
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MAKHAYEV, MIKHAIL IVANOVICH.

B. Smolenskoye, Vereysky district [now Moscow region], 1716-18; d. St Petersburg, 25 Feb 1770.
Russian draughtsman and engraver. He was the son of a priest, and from 1729 he studied at the St Petersburg Naval Academy. In August 1731 he was transferred to the instrument-making department of the Academy of Sciences, where he helped to make land-surveying instruments, including theodolites (a training that was of value when he later came to sketch views of St Petersburg); he also learnt how to carve moulds for dies under Georg Unfertsagt (1701-67); and he studied drawing under the two members of the Academy staff, Ottmar Elliger II and Elias Grimmel (1703-58). In June 1743 Makhayev was made director of the cartographic and die-carving section of the Academy, and he was employed there for the rest of his life. Together with his pupils he helped to produce the Atlas rossiyskoy imperii ('Atlas of the Russian Empire'; 1740s); in addition, he provided inscriptions for diplomas for honorary members of the Academy, for porcelain snuff-boxes and for a large silver shrine at the tomb of Aleksandr Nevsky (early 175...


Bagrow.


Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.


von Wulff - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.

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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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