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HONDIUS, JODUCUS d.y.

Son till Jodocus Hondius d.ä.

THELOTT, PHILIP JACOB d. ä.

Född o. 1635 i Schweiz, enl. egen uppgift, död 1710, begr. 6/11 i Stockholm (S:t Olof).
Ur- och instrumentmakare. Träsnidare, kopparstickare och akvarellmålare. Tillhörde en i Augsburg bosatt släkt av guldsmeder och kopparstickare. Var verksam i Schweiz, då han i slutet av 1660-talet inkallades till Sverige av Olof Rudbäck d. ä. för att i Uppsala »betjena den studerande ungdomen förnämligast med matematiska och mekaniska instrumenter». Åtnjöt här från 1670 undervisning i »tekniska vetenskaper» av Rudbeck och stod under dennes speciella protektion. Uppbar för sin verksamhet vid universitetet från 1671 till åtminstone 1695 årligen »simplice stipendium» med 180 dlr smt. Arbetade samtidigt i Antikvitetskollegii tjänst »uthi urmakerij sampt utstickande af koppar, messing och trä». Tillsammans med sina fyra barn Anna Maria, Hans, Olof och Philip Jacob utförde han illustrationerna till Rudbecks Atland och 7-8.000 träsnitt för dennes Campi Elysii. Efter den stora branden i Uppsala 1702, som förstörde största delen av hans livsverk och gjorde honom utfattig, flyttade T. till Stockholm och var här för sit...
Bland arbeten.
O. RUDBECK, Atland eller Manheim, atlasbandet. Uppsala 1679: 7 kartor över Europa och Sverige.

Hultmark, 1944.

ARROWSMITH, AARON.

1750-1823.
He was an English geographer (mapmaker) and member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square, London from Winston, County Durham when about twenty years of age, and was employed by John Gary, the engraver and led for some years the office of hydrographer to the king. In January 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator projection. Four years later he published another large map of the world on the globular projection, with a companion volume of explanation. The maps of North America (1796) and Scotland (1807) are the most celebrated of his many later productions. He left two sons, Aaron and Samuel, the elder of whom was the compiler of the Eton Comparative Atlas, of a Biblical atlas, and of various manuals of geography.
The business was thus carried on in company with John Arrowsmith (1790-1873), nephew of the elder Aaron. In 1821, they published a more complete North American map from a combination of a maps obtained from the Hudson Bay Company and Aaro...
Bland arbeten.
First map of North America, 1790
A Map Exhibiting All the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America, January 1, 1795 (Other editions 1801, 1802, 1804 and 1816 featuring roads)
Chart of the South Pacific, 1798
A New Map of Africa, 1802
Map of Countries Round the North Pole, 1818
Ogden map (North America), 1821 (2nd edition : 1834)

Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936

'Dalecarliae et Westmanniae. Nova et Accurata descriptio.' - P. Schenk och G. Valk, ca 1700.

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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