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HIMBERG, CLAES FREDRIK.

Född 1787 27/10 i Stockholm (Ad. Fredr.), död 1853 17/5 i samma stad (Hedv. El).
Gravör. Son av trädgårdsmästaren Nils H. och Catharina Lind. Elev vid Konstakademien, där han erhöll en tredjemedalj 1805. Blev 1846 4/9 omyndigförklarad och ställd under bokhållaren Gustaf Himbergs fömynderskap.
Bland arbeten.
N. G. WERMING, Kartor öfver svenska städer, u. o. [1806-19]: 3 blad, bl.a. Belägenheten af Falkenberg, 1813, och Belägenheten af Ängelholm, 1815. (Hultmark, 1944.)

RUDBECK, OLOF.

1630-1702. Född i Västerås, död i Uppsala.
Svensk naturforskare. 1648-54 studerade han medicin i Uppsala och vid holländska universitet, 1655 blev han adjunkt vid universitetet i Uppsala, 1658 professor i teoretisk medicin (med fysik, botanik, anatomi och kemi). Han var en betydande botaniker och medicinsk forskare. Hans mest berömda verk är 'Atlantica sive Manheim' i tre band (1677-98). Där försökte han med stor lärdom bevisa att Sverige var identiskt med Platons Atlantis.

Bland arbeten.
Atlantica sive Manheim.


Sv. män och kv.

EMMIUS [EMMIO], UBBO[NE].

1547-1625.
Cartographer and historian, d. Groningen.


Bland arbeten.
Frisia Orientalis, 1590-(5).
Maps of Groningen & Friesland 1616 used Hondius, Blaeu &c.


Tooley.


Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.


Ducatus Luneburgici. - J. B. Homann ca 1730.

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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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