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KÖHLER, JOHANN DAVID.

1684-1755. Född i Colditz, Sachsen, död i Göttingen.
Tysk historiker. Från 1703 studerade han teologi, språk och historia i Wittenberg. 1710 blev han professor i logik och 1714 i historia vid universitetet i Altdorf. 1735 blev han tillsatt som professor i historia vid det nyupprättade universitetet i Göttingen. Förutom flera historiska verk gav han bl.a. ut 'Bequemer Schulund Reisen-Atlas' (1719) och en 'Atlas manualis' (ca. 1724).

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Bequemer Schulund Reisen-Atlas.
Atlas manualis.


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BOWEN, THOMAS.

Död 1790.
Engelsk kartograf, son till BOWEN, EMANUEL. På uppdrag av regeringen graverade han kartor och skisser över Västindien efter kapten James Speers upptäckter. Runt år 1750 gav han ut vägkartor över distrikten runt London, 1776 'New projection of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres of the Earth' och 1778 en 'Accurate Map of the Russian Empire in Europe and Asia'.


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New projection of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres of the Earth.
Accurate Map of the Russian Empire in Europe and Asia.


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THORLAKSSON, THORDUR.

1637-1697.
Kartograf och biskop i Skálholt. Barnbarn till Gudbrandur Thorlaksson, troligen på fädernet. Intresserad av astronomi och geografi vilket återspeglas i de astronomiska bilder han gjorde samt i de kartor över Island som han producerade, bland annat en manuskriptkarta från 1670. Thorlaksson gav även ut den första tryckta upplagan av Landnámabók 1688.
Han var gift med Gudridur Gisladottir.

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Kopierade 'Norse map' och ritade 'Stars' 1668, använd av Torfaeus 'Gronlandia antiqua' 1706.
'Island' 1670, manuskript.


Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.


Mustelhamn på Ösel samt Dagös västra udde. - A. Nagaev 1757.

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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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