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TÖRNSTEN, JONAS EDVARD.

1733-1783.
Surveyor in Västerbotten province.


Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.

Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]

1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at...

BERNHARDT, GUSTAF.

1787-1865.
Författade följande två skrifter 1818 respektive 1823.
Beskrifning öfwer Hardemo socken uti Nerike. En af Örebro läns kongl. hushållningssällskap med högsta priset år 1814 belönt skrift. Af Gustaf Bernhardt. Med en charta. Strengnäs, tryckt hos Carl Erik Ekmarck, 1818.
Beskrifning öfwer Björkwik socken i Södermanland. På begäran författad och utgifwen af G.B. Med en charta. Nyköping, tryckt hos P.E. Winge, 1823. På desz förlag.
På en karta utgiven över Färentuna härad 1853 står 'Skrift af I. Bernhardt', detta kan vara samme Bernhardt som ovanstående.


Bland arbeten.
Beskrifning öfwer Hardemo socken uti Nerike. En af Örebro läns kongl. hushållningssällskap med högsta priset år 1814 belönt skrift. Af Gustaf Bernhardt. Med en charta. Strengnäs, tryckt hos Carl Erik Ekmarck, 1818.
Beskrifning öfwer Björkwik socken i Södermanland. På begäran författad och utgifwen af G.B. Med en charta. Nyköping, tryckt hos P.E. Winge, 1823. På desz förlag.


KB.


Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.


Mjölke, Chamænerium angustifolium - 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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