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NORRIS, JOHN Sir.

Omkring 1660-1749.
Engelsk amiral , deltog som fartygsbefälhavare i sjöstriderna på 1690-talet och under 1700-talets första år, blev 1708 viceamiral och låg 1709 utanför Helsingör med uppdrag att hindra fransk spannmålsinförsel från östersjöhamnarna. 1709 amiral, var han 1710-11 överbefälhavare för Medelhavsflottan. 1715, 1716 och 1718 var han befälhavare för de till Östersjön sända engelska flottor, som avsågo att öva press på Sverige. Efter Karl XII:s död sändes han ånyo till Östersjön för att mota de ryska planerna mot Sverige men lyckades ej förhindra ryssarnas härjningar på den svenska östkusten och intog i det hela en passiv hållning. 1734-44 var han överbefälhavare för engelska flottan.


Svensk Uppslagsbok.

Montanus, Arnold.

fl. 1671.
Published a notable Atlas of America which was used by John Ogilby as the basis for his An Accurate Description and Complete History of America. The maps were extremely decorative and included a view of New Amsterdam as it appeared soon after its foundation.

STRABON.


Grek, skrev om vändkretsar och polcirklarna.


Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.


Snårvinda, Convolvulus sepium - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

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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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